Bengaluru, May 23 : The One-year-old JD(S)-Congress Alliance government is facing imminent threat of losing power in Karnataka, as the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has almost swept the Lok Sabha elections by bagging maximum number of seats as per the latest trends of election votes count taken up in the state this till evening
The Saffron BJP which stoutly gaining from the strong undercurrent of the Modi wave, is poised to win up to 24 seats among the total number of 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka.
Coalition pre-poll pact between the two parties seemed flattered as BJP is leading across the regions. Even in Hyderabad-Karnataka, Central region and the Old Mysuru, as well as in the Coastal Karnataka, where the two parties seem to had received a severe reversal for both the parties.
The BJP which held 17 seats in the outgoing Lok Sabha won the first seat when its sitting member Sanganna Karadi declared winner by a margin of 37,424 in Koppal.
The latest trends when counting was taken up in the State this morning said the BJP was leading in 24 seats, Congress in two seats, JD(S) in one seat and the BJP supported an Independent candidate Sumalata leading in key segment Mandya, where she is giving a run-for ?money to the JD(S) candidate, and son of the Chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, Nikhil Kumaraswamy.
The election trend was a major setback for ruling Congress stalwarts in Karnataka ? where JD(S) national president H D Devegowda trailed against a seasoned BJP candidate G S Basavaraju in Tumakuru, seven time parliamentarian K H Muniyappa faced a certain defeat against BJP’s Muniyappa in Kolar-SC segment and former union minister and Karnataka chief minister Veerappa Moily trailing behind local strongman B N Bachche Gowda in Chikkaballapur by a huge margin.
All the Union ministers, and the BJP candidates, including D V Sadananda Gowda (Bengaluru North), Ramesh Jigajinagi (Vijayapura) and Ananthakumara Hegde (Uttara Kannada) were leading with a huge margin against the JD(S)-Congress alliance candidates.
All the sitting BJP MPs, in the outgoing Lok Sabha, of the BJP, are also sailing smoothly on the strong Modi wave, while the new faces including V Muniraju (Kolar), Tejasvi Surya (Bengaluru South), Anna Saheb Jolle (Chikkodi) and A Narayanaswamy (Chitradurga), Dr Umesh jadhav (Kalaburagi) are also comfortably placed to make it a maiden entry to the 18th Lok Sabha.
The Congress had suffered a humiliating defeat, when its stalwart and the leader in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjuna Kharge, who had never lost any elections in his over five decades of politics, had to stumble before the BJP’s new entrant Dr Umesh Jadhav.
The JD(S). the mew found ally of the Congress, also suffered a humiliating electoral loss when its supremo and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda is facing a certain defeat in Tumakuru and Nikhil Kumaraswamy, the son of the Chief minister H D Kumaraswamy is also on the way of biting the dust in the hands of an independent candidate, Sumalatha in Mandya Lok Sabha seat.
Former Chief minister and the State BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa, who had predicted a spectacular victory for the party had vowed to form the State Government as several Congress MLSs are not happy with the JD(S)-Congress coalition government.
With the BJP poised to score an unprecedented victory in the Lok Sabha elections, the state is expected to witness a fresh political turmoil in Karnataka in the day or two, one of the Senior Congress leader said.
Meanwhile the former Deputy Chief minister and senior BJP leader R Ashok had predicted an imminent fall of the coalition government.
