01-06-2006, 12:46 AM
Cong upbeat, JDS down
Somehow we missed this news. Can somebody familiar with Karnataka politics shed some more light on this.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Of the 27 districts in the state, the Congress has a clear majority in 13 districts and the JD(S) in two at the zilla panchayat level. In the 12 remaining districts the Congress has to choose as its partner the JD(S) or former deputy chief minister Siddaramaiah�s All India Progressive Janata Dal (AIPJD).<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Congress� performance stands out in comparison with that of JD(S) and BJP but looks dim, when judged against its feat in the last panchayat elections when it wrested control of 26 of the 27 ZPs. For the BJP, which emerged as the single largest party with 79 seats in the assembly polls but failed to reach the magic figure to govern the state, the results have prived it is not urban-centric.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Somehow we missed this news. Can somebody familiar with Karnataka politics shed some more light on this.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Of the 27 districts in the state, the Congress has a clear majority in 13 districts and the JD(S) in two at the zilla panchayat level. In the 12 remaining districts the Congress has to choose as its partner the JD(S) or former deputy chief minister Siddaramaiah�s All India Progressive Janata Dal (AIPJD).<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Congress� performance stands out in comparison with that of JD(S) and BJP but looks dim, when judged against its feat in the last panchayat elections when it wrested control of 26 of the 27 ZPs. For the BJP, which emerged as the single largest party with 79 seats in the assembly polls but failed to reach the magic figure to govern the state, the results have prived it is not urban-centric.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->