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BJP leadership angry over cross voting in Karnataka, senior leaders including state president summoned to Delhi
Samira Vishwas | June 20, 2026 6:24 PM CST

The central leadership of BJP in the state is angry over the heavy cross voting in the Karnataka Assembly Council elections. State President BY Vijendra, Leader of Opposition R Ashok and state in-charge Radhamohan Das have been summoned to Delhi on 23rd. It is noteworthy that about 10 NDA MLAs in Karnataka did cross voting due to which the BJP high command is unhappy.

National President Nitin Nabin has expressed strong objection to cross voting. Also, the country’s state leadership has directed state president VY Vijayendra, leader of opposition R Ashok, and state in-charge Radha Mohan Das to come to Delhi on June 23 to give clarification and hold a meeting on this matter.

For some time now, the politics of the state has been seen making headlines. The reason for this is that Congress, while reshuffling the CM face in its state government, has handed over this responsibility to DK Shivkumar. This was his first election contest since becoming the Chief Minister.

In such a situation, elections were held on seven seats of the Legislative Council. The ruling Congress performed brilliantly in this. Captured five of these seats. Here BJP won only two seats. BJP’s ally JDS could not open its account in this election. During this time it was seen that NDA MLAs overwhelmingly voted for the Congress candidate. Meaning BJP got 151 votes, which is 11 votes more than the required number of 140 votes. During this period, 3 MLAs of BJP and 8 MLAs of JDS have done cross voting. The vote of a BJP MLA was cancelled.

Thippanappa Kamkanur, PV Mohan, BK Hariprasad, BS Shivanna and Vinay Karthik Prakash have won from Congress in this election. Lingaraj Patil and Raghu R have won from BJP. JDS’s lone candidate Govindaraju has faced a crushing defeat.


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