Karnataka civic polls: BJP gets majority in 2 municipal corporations

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka received a shot in the arm in the elections to the three municipal corporations by getting a clear majority in Belagavi, emerged as the single largest party in Hubballi-Dharwad and finished a close second in Kalaburagi.

In the Doddaballapur City Municipal Council election in Bengaluru rural district, the BJP emerged as the single largest party while Congress got the absolute majority in Tarikere Town Municipal Council in Chikkamagaluru district.

An elated Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who dubbed the election results as a clean sweep in favour of his month-old government in the ‘sample test’, said the BJP will come to power in all the three municipal corporations. The elections took place on September 3 and the results were announced on Monday.

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