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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 15 : Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will contest at least 40 seats in the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections, party state president Hari R said on Saturday.The Karnataka NCP president further said that four to five Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs were in touch with the NCP and are expected to join the party before the polls."We will fight in at least 40 seats in the upcoming elections. Four to five sitting MLAs of the BJP are in touch with us to join the party. The (former) mayor of Bengaluru may also join our party soon," Hari R told .Earlier today NCP chief Sharad Pawar held a meeting of party leaders at the party office in Mumbai.During the 2018 polls, NCP contested 14 seats in Karnataka.Recently, the Election Commission had downgraded the status of the NCP to a regional party withdrawing its national party recognition.The 224-seat Karnataka Assembly will go to polls on May 10, and the votes will be counted on May 13.Political parties in the State including the ruling BJP, Congress and ally JD(S) are engaged in a spate of allegations and counter-allegations, with the latter attempting to corner the government over the issue of corruption.Karnataka, which has 224 seats in the Assembly presently has 119 MLAs of the ruling BJP, while Congress has 75 and its ally JD(S) has 28 seats.BJP has announced the names of 189 candidates in the first list on April 11 and 23 candidates in the second list on April 12. The first list featured 52 fresh faces and eight women.A total of 7 sitting MLAs could not make it to the second list. The names of the candidates for the 12 constituencies are still remaining to be declared by BJP which includes constituencies of Hubli Dharwad Central, Krishnaraja, Shivamogga, Mahadevpura etc.Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai today filed his nomination from Shiggaon Assembly constituency.Meanwhile, displeasure by several Karnataka BJP leaders came out after the party released the names of candidates.In a major blow to the ruling BJP ahead of the Karnataka polls, former deputy chief minister Laxman Savadi joined the Congress party, after being denied a ticket by BJP.Savadi met the Congress's state president Shivakumar and the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Siddaramaiah at the latter's residence in Bengaluru.Savadi, on April 12, had resigned as a Legislative Council member and from the primary membership of the BJP after missing out on a ticket to seek a fresh mandate from his Assembly constituency, Ath.On the other hand, supporters of sitting BJP MLA from Belagavi North, l Benake staged a protest on Tuesday evening after he was denied a ticket in the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections.Further, supporters of BJP MLA Mahadevappa Yadawad protested in Ramdurg constituency in Belagavi over the ticket being denied to him. Chikka Revana who joined the BJP recently got the ticket from the constituency.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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