{"id":317604,"date":"2019-12-09T16:10:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T16:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317604"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:08:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T16:08:50","slug":"yediyurappa-government-retains-majority-in-karnataka-bypolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/yediyurappa-government-retains-majority-in-karnataka-bypolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Yediyurappa government retains majority in Karnataka bypolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-317605 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/yediyurappa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/yediyurappa.jpg 655w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/yediyurappa-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/yediyurappa-513x420.jpg 513w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday swept the Assembly by-polls in Karnataka winning 12 of the 15 seats. With this win, the four-month-old B S Yediyurappa government is safe in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The party needed six seats to stay in power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress Legislature Party leader and former chief minister Siddaramaiah and State Congress chief Dinesh Gundu Rao resign from their posts after the poor show of the party that won only two seats, as against the 12 it had held of the 15 which went to the bypolls on December 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u2018Citing unsatisfactory results\u2019, both leaders tendered their resignations to Congress president Sonia Gandhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Previously, all 15 seats were held by the two parties, with the Congress winning 12 and the JD(S) bagging remaining three.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The elections were held to fill the vacancies caused by the resignation and disqualification of the 17 Congress and JD-S rebels in July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The rebel MLAs joined the BJP last month, after the Apex Court allowed them to contest the bypolls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With BJP winning 12 of the 15 assembly constituencies, the party\u2019s numbers will go up from 105 (including an independent) to 117, which is well ahead of the halfway mark of 111.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday swept the Assembly by-polls in Karnataka winning 12 of the 15 seats. With this win, the four-month-old B S Yediyurappa government is safe in the state. The party needed six seats to stay in power. Congress Legislature Party leader and former chief minister Siddaramaiah and State Congress chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":317605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,1801,2072,2014],"tags":[12155,1430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317607,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317604\/revisions\/317607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/317605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}