Karnataka Election Schedule Live: Poll Panel To Announce Dates At 11.30 am
NDTV
The BJP government, being led by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is putting in efforts to return to power and stressing on the Kannadigas issue.
The schedule for the Karnataka assembly elections will be announced by the election commission today. The poll panel in a notice said that the dates would be announced at 11.30 am. The term of the 224-member Karnataka Assembly ends on May 24.
The BJP currently has 119 MLAs in the Karnataka assembly, while Congress has 75 and its ally JD(S) has 28 seats.
With months to go for the Assembly elections, the political parties including the ruling BJP, Congress and ally JD(S) began the spate of allegations and counter-allegations, with the latter attempting to corner the government over the issue of corruption.
The BJP government, being led by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is also putting in efforts to return to power and stressing on the Kannadigas issue, reservation to the Lingayat and Vokkaliga communities by scrapping a religion-based reservation for the Muslim community, a decision which the state government took recently.
