Introspect on bypoll defeat, BSY tells party workers

BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa on Monday asked party workers to introspect on the defeat of BJP candidates in Gundlupet and Nanjangud Assembly bypolls.

Addressing party workers here during the thanksgiving programmes organised in Gundlupet and Nanjangud, he ridiculed Siddaramaiah by saying that no leader in the country had ever faced elections like him. He alleged that the state government had misused administrative machinery and the council of ministers to win the two seats in the bypoll.

V Srinivas Prasad, who was defeated in Nanjangud bypolls, said that he had considered his defeat as a challenge. “The party will win 150 seats in 2018 and make Siddaramaiah sit in the Opposition,” he said.