Stage set for polling in crucial UP by-elections tomorrow
A total of 34 lakh voters will decide the fate of 90 candidates contesting the bypolls from nine assembly constituencies.
As BJP chief Amit Shah arrived in Bengaluru on Sunday to meet party leaders ahead of 2018 Assembly polls, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said his “magic won’t work” in the state.
“Amit Shah’s magic won’t work in Karnataka,” the chief minister said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief took stock of the party’s preparations in the poll-bound state.
During the day-long visit, Shah will have one meeting with the legislators and MPs and a separate meeting with office-bearers of the party’s legislature wing.
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In another meeting, he would interact with the state office-bearers, district chiefs and district office-bearers while his last meeting will be with the members of the party’s core group in the state.
Karnataka is one of the two major states ruled by the Congress and assembly polls are expected to take place in the first-half of next year. The BJP is keen to wrest the state from the Congress.
Shah’s visit comes in the backdrop of BJP’s Karnataka unit and the ruling Congress blaming each other on the deadlock over getting Mahadayi river water from neighbouring Goa to the four drought-hit districts in the state’s northern region. Goa has a BJP-led government.
The 77-km-long Mahadayi or Mandovi river originates at Bhimgad in the Western Ghats in Belagavi district of north-west Karnataka and flows into the neighbouring Goa and eventually joins the Arabian Sea.
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