In Karnataka, BJP vs BJP Could Derail Party's 'Mission South' Lok Sabha Plan
NDTV
In the 2019 election the BJP swept Karnataka, winning 25 of its 28 seats, while the Congress and the JDS won one each, with the final seat going to an independent.
The BJP and the Janata Dal (Secular) last week announced a "win-win" alliance for Karnataka's 28 Lok Sabha seats; the BJP will contest 25 and the JDS three in the Vokkaliga belt, where the former seems to have little traction and in which it lost ground to the Congress in the 2023 Assembly election.
Ex-Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai hailed the deal and pointed to complementary vote banks with "no clashes". Mr Bommai also pointed to a "good relationship between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda (who is the JDS' founder and patriarch)".
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