Mayoral polls: JD(S) plays its cards close to its chest

Suspense continues over the stand of JD(S) in the mid-term Mayoral polls scheduled for August 25.With its support crucial for any party to clinch the post of Mayor in the hung Mysuru City Corporation

Suspense continues over the stand of JD(S) in the mid-term Mayoral polls scheduled for August 25. With its support crucial for any party to clinch the post of Mayor in the hung Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), the BJP as well as Congress have reached out to it for an understanding. The BJP has 22 members while the Congress has 19 members in the House. The JD(S) has 17 members while BSP has one member. Five others are independents. Apart from the 65 members of MCC, Mysuru MP Pratap Simha belonging to the BJP, four MLAs – S. A. Ramdas and L. Nagendra (both BJP), Tanveer Sait (Cong) and G.T. Deve Gowda (JD-S), besides three MLCs – Marithibbe Gowda, Srikante Gowda and Sandesh Nagaraj (all JD-S) – have voting rights.