JD(S) Leader Slams AITC President's Appointment, Urges Party to Focus on Elections

Also Read -'Mamata is Trinamool': Moitra Slams AITC President's Appointment, Says'Then Fight Elections, Power Will Flow'Announcement He said that the national president has asked the leaders to leave the matter to the central leadership and focus on strengthening the organization, so that the BJP can be voted to power in the 2028 assembly elections. In fact, in the recently held legislative council elections, the Congress won five out of seven seats, while the BJP got two seats. The JD (S) could not even win its only seat. The election results revealed cross-voting by BJP and JD (S) MLAs in favour of Congress candidates. According to sources, the Congress got 151 votes against the expected 140. Meanwhile, Vijayendra's proposal to call a legislative party meeting in Dharmasthala to bring out the truth of cross-voting and swear an oath to Bhagwan Manjunath also ran into controversy. Senior party leaders opposed this and said that the party will also withdraw the proposal at the Dharmasthala level.