KC Venugopal to hold meeting with 21 Cong candidates who lost in LS polls

Benaluru: State Congress in charge KC Venugopal will be holding a meeting in Bengaluru with the 21 Congress candidates who lost in the Lok Sabha elections.

As per the sources, both the Congress and the Janata Dal-Secular (JDS), which contested the recent Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka as allies, failed to make a mark.

The BJP had won 25 of the 28 seats along with an Independent backed by it leaving just one seat each to Congress and JDS.

Thus meeting comes few days after, Congress leader KH Muniyappa blamed JDS for the coalition’s rout in the Lok Sabha elections, asserting that stitching an alliance with HD Deve Gowda’s party cost dearly. He also said that Congress will contest alone in the local body elections next year