Bangalore, April 5 (Inditop.com) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday won a majority in the Bangalore civic polls, nearly two years after it captured power in Karnataka for the first time.
The BJP bagged 106 seats in the 198-member corporation. Of the 187 results declared, Congress managed 60 seats and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) was a distant third with just 14 wins while Independents had taken seven seats, state election officials said.
Counting for the remaining 11 seats is on.
The victory marks a hat-trick for the BJP — it won the May 2008 assembly elections and bagged 19 of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in the April-May 2009 parliamentary polls.
Polling for the Bangalore civic body took place on March 28. Of the 6.6 million eligible voters, around 46 percent cast their ballots to choose 198 representatives from over 1,300 candidates, majority of them independents.
BJP had contested 197 seats, Congress 196 and JD-S 194.
