Several coalition MLAs keen to switch sides after BJP’s poll show

As soon as the trends of the Lok Sabha election results started trickling in on Thursday, the Bharatiya Janata Party Karnataka leadership is learnt to have been flooded with feelers from MLAs of the governing Janata Dal (Secular)–Congress coalition who are willing to shift loyalties in a bid to help the saffron party form an alternative government in the State.
Despite emerging as the single-largest party by securing 104 seats in the 225-member Legislative Assembly (including a nominated member) in the 2018 elections, the BJP had to sit in the Opposition as the JD(S) and the Congress came together to form the government.

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