Polls for Council Dy. Chairman post right this moment; BJP’s Pranesh set to win

Election to the post of Deputy Chairman of Legislative Council, which has fallen vacant, has been necessitated with the submitting of nomination by BJP and Congress candidates. The election shall be held on Friday.

While BJP legislator M.K. Pranesh filed his nomination papers on Thursday, Congress requested it’s senior member K.C. Kondaiah additionally to file his nomination for the post.

However, it’s unlikely that Mr. Kondaiah will prevail over his BJP rival because the Congress doesn’t have the numbers by itself. The assist of Janata Dal (Secular) is essential within the election since no social gathering has a transparent majority within the 75-member House.

JD(S) and BJP have already come to an understanding over sharing of the post of Deputy Chairman and Chairman. The two events have given discover to transfer a no-confidence movement towards Chairman K. Prathapchandra Shetty.

Senior-most member within the Council and JD(S) chief Basavaraj Horatti, who’s set to grow to be the joint candidate of JD(S) and BJP for the Chairman’s post on Thursday, thanked social gathering supremo H.D. Deve Gowda for having supplied the chance to him to grow to be the Chairman. He additionally met Mr. Gowda within the morning. Mr. Horatti thanked Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and BJP legislators for agreeing to the association.

Mr. Horatti mentioned that the discover of no-confidence movement has been given and in accordance to the foundations, the discover has to be issued 14 days earlier than. “The 14-day window will end on February 2 and the motion has to be included in the agenda after that,” he mentioned.