BJP wins 3 of 6 Karnataka legislative council seats
Bengaluru, June 13: Karnataka's opposition BJP won three of the six legislative council seats in the June 8 biennial election held in the three Teachers and three Graduates constituencies across the state, said the Election Commission on Wednesday.
The Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) won two and the Congress one after vote count of paper ballots cast in the state's 30 districts where the respective constituencies were formed after delimitation.
"The BJP won the South-East Teachers constituency, South-West Graduates and Bangalore Graduates constituencies, while the JD-S won from South-West Teachers and South Teachers constituencies and Congress from North-East Graduates constituency," said the poll panel on its website.
BJP contestant Y.A. Narayanaswamy won the South-East Teachers seat with 8,479 votes, defeating JD-S nominee Ramesh Babu who polled 6,607 votes.
Similarly, BJP candidate Aayunuru Manjunatha won from South-West Graduates seat, securing a whopping 25,210 votes as against 16,157 votes by S.P. Dinesh of Congress.
BJP nominee A. Devegowda won the Bangalore Graduates seat, polling 17,702 votes and defeating Ramoji Gowda of Congress who got 12,838 votes.
JD-S candidate S.H. Bhoje Gowda won the South-West Teachers seat with 8,677 votes defeating BJP's Ganesh Karnik who polled 5,812 votes.
JD-S contestant Marithibbe Gowda won the South Teachers seat with 11,022 votes as against 6,805 votes by M. Lakshmamma of Congress.
Congress contest B. Chandrashekhar won the North-East Graduates seat with 18,768 votes as against 18,447 votes polled by BJP's K.B. Srinivas.
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Karnataka govt to spend Rs 2,500 cr to upgrade 500 government schools
Bengaluru, Nov 28: The Karnataka Cabinet on Thursday decided to upgrade 500 government schools as Karnataka Public Schools at an outlay of Rs 2,500 crore in four years.
For the purpose, the state government would borrow Rs 2,000 crore from the Asian Development Bank and contribute Rs 500 crore.
This project will be taken up from July 2025 to June 2029.
According to the Karnataka Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H K Patil, there are 308 Karnataka Public Schools functioning in 204 Taluks of the state.
