BJP certain to win K’taka polls: Yeddyurappa

BJP would secure 132 to 135 seats in 224-member house, senior party leader and former Karnataka CM B S Yeddyurappa said.

The BJP would comfortably win in the just concluded assembly polls in Karnataka by securing 132 to 135 seats in the 224-member house, senior party leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa said on Thursday.

“BJP is sure to win the assembly polls with a comfortable margin and would secure 132-135 seats in the elections,” Yeddyurappa, who was in Kannur to visit the famous Raja Rajeshwara temple at the neighbouring Taliparamba town, told a private TV channel Thursday evening.

Yeddyurappa, who was also former Deputy Chief Minister in the H D Kumaraswamy led government, said he would again pay visit to the temple after his party’s victory in the polls, which concluded on Thursday.

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Yeddyurappa also visited the Madayi Devi temple along with his close relatives.

The counting of the three-phased polls would be held on May 25.

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