2008-05-25 10:36:54 - Rebel Congress candidates who were denied tickets,roll over their candidature to BJP and aided BJP to win in congress rooted constituency. BJP is inching towards magic figure of 113 seats to take over the reign of Karnataka.Latest tally shows BJP 111,Congress 74, JD S 31,others 8.

Delimation of constituencies in Karnataka, agglomerate of caste votes,tacit understanding of congress with JD S and therefore division of secular votes with BJP offering enormous economic package,RSS penetrating in rural vote banks with saffron selecting the son of the soil as their CM candidate with congress projecting SM Krishnana as pro modern and belongs to computer age has all its

adverse impact on congress vote banks. both in rural and urban votes.

Triangular contest of seats made BJP job easier,the JDS poor show also mar the congress opporunity in this election.Telagana issue also go against congress.BSP has also played spoiled sports for congress party.

Karnataka State out of 224 seats, the prominent artists of Kannada cinema industry have filed their papers to the Assembly election.

List of matine idols and cinema related personalities who have filed the nominations for the Karnataka assembly elections.

Union Minister of state for information and broadcasting cum Member of Parliament from Mandya Lok Sabha seat the prominent Kannada film star Ambarish is degrading himself and contesting to the Assembly seat from Srirangapatna constituency.

Comedy actor of karnataka, Jaggesh is offered the Congress I ticket. Actor Jaggesh was very optimistic to win this time.

The actor turned politician C.P.Yogishwar is contesting again from Channapatna constituency is an interesting three corner battle taking former CM Ramakrishna Hegde"s daughter Mamatha Nachani on a Congress-I ticket and Former chief minister H.D.Kumaraswamy also producer, distributor and exhibitor in Karnataka contesting from Channapatna and Ramanagaram constituencies.Former CM H D Kumarasswamy of JDS established lead of 34,158 votes against his rival political Mamata Nichhani a congress candidate.

Yelahanka assembly constituency the ‘Mungaru Male" and ‘Moggina Manasu" producer E.Krishnappa is contesting for Assembly seat on JD-S ticket.

Dialogue King Saikumar is contesting from BJP ticket from Bagepalli constituency.

S.Mahenderan old director and husband of actress Shruthi is contesting in Kollegal on BJP ticket for the first time.

As per trends available after four hours of counting for 224 seats, the BJP was also leading in 101. The Congress and the JDS was ahead in 71 and 29 seats respectively.Others and Independents led in nine segments.