- Thursday, April 25, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
IN India, politics can be extremely entertaining. On Friday (10), it was proved again and this time, a lawmaker from the southern state of Karnataka was the man behind it.
K Srinivasa Gowda, a legislator from the Janata Dal (Secular), one of the state’s major political parties, said he voted in favour of the Indian National Congress, one of the opponents of his party in the state (the other is the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party), in the election to the Rajya Sabha or the upper chamber of the Indian parliament, also called the Council of States.
“I voted Congress,” Gowda told reporters after casting his ballot and when he was asked why he did it, he said, “Because I love it”.
#WATCH | I have voted for Congress because I love it: K Srinivasa Gowda, Karnataka JD(S) leader on Rajya Sabha elections pic.twitter.com/oMSkdlYSuQ
— ANI (@ANI) June 10, 2022
Earlier in the day, JD(S) chief and former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy alleged “horse-trading” in the Karnataka Rajya Sabha elections claiming that Congress leader Siddaramaiah, a former member of the JD(S) and a former chief minister, was pressurising his party’s lawmakers to not vote for their own party but for the grand-old party.
“Yes, definitely. He is pressurising them not to vote for JD(S),” Kumaraswamy told media persons on being asked about Siddaramaiah’s claims that some JD(S) lawmakers were in touch with him.
In the four Rajya Sabha seats that went to the polls in Karnataka, three were won by the BJP while the Congress won the remaining one. The JD(S) failed to win any.
In Rajya Sabha elections in India, lawmakers of different states cast their ballots.
