<p>The counting of votes for 102 urban local bodies and three city corporations will be taken up on Monday. These ULBs went to polls on August 31.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The counting of votes will start at 8 am at jurisdictional district headquarters for city corporations, and jurisdictional taluk headquarters for other ULBs.</p>.<p class="bodytext">All three parties - Congress, BJP and the JD(S) - are hoping to garner maximum number of seats to galvanise the party cadres for Lok Sabha elections.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Though the JD(S) and the Congress are alliance partners in the coalition government, the two decided to fight the ULB polls independently.</p>
<p>The counting of votes for 102 urban local bodies and three city corporations will be taken up on Monday. These ULBs went to polls on August 31.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The counting of votes will start at 8 am at jurisdictional district headquarters for city corporations, and jurisdictional taluk headquarters for other ULBs.</p>.<p class="bodytext">All three parties - Congress, BJP and the JD(S) - are hoping to garner maximum number of seats to galvanise the party cadres for Lok Sabha elections.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Though the JD(S) and the Congress are alliance partners in the coalition government, the two decided to fight the ULB polls independently.</p>