Ahead of council bypoll, BJP ferries legislators to pvt resort

December 21, 2011 13:40

The ruling BJP today ferried its legislators to a private resort on the city outskirts fearing poaching from opposition parties during tomorrow's bypoll to
the lone legislative council seat which Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda has to win to continue in the post.
BJP sources said all the MLAs will return to the city tomorrow and head towards Vidhana Soudha, the state secretariat for voting, which is done through secret ballot. Normally, ahead of a poll, MLAs or MPs are ferried to a hotel in the city

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