Cong chances 'excellent': Moily

Bangalore (PTI): The Congress has "excellent" chances of coming to power after the next month's Karnataka Assembly elections as the BJP rule is marked by maladministration and corruption, Union Minister M Veerappa Moily said on Friday.

Moily told reporters that there was "no question" of BJP returning to power. To repeated BJP's taunts to Congress to name its Chief Ministerial candidate, Moily said his party did not believe in projecting anyone as the practice was that the MLAs would be consulted on the issue. "They (BJP) announce their captain of and on. That is why they collapsed," Moily said.

Ruling out himself from the race of chief ministership in the event of Congress being voted to power, Moily said his role would be to ensure the party's victory. "I am not an aspirant for chief ministership," he said.

On the heartburn among a section of ticket aspirants in Congress, Moily said there was a "problem of plenty" in his party. "But we look at it as an advantage which BJP and JDS do not have," he said, adding that there were no rebels.

To a query, Moily said there was no question of post- electoral alignment either with JDS led by former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda or Karnataka Janatha Paksha headed by former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, as Congress was confident of doing well on its own.

Rs 12 lakh seized

Ramanagara: An amount of Rs 12 lakh which was being illegally transported from Bangalore to Mysore in a car, allegedly to woo voters for the May 5 Assembly polls, was seized by police on Friday.

On a tip-off, police intercepted the car at Hejjala check post and seized the cash being transported "without any records or documents," they said. The driver has been detained and is being questioned, they added.

84 candidates file papers Bangalore (PTI): As many as 84 candidates filed their nominations on Friday for the May five Assembly elections on the second day of the poll process, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Anil Kumar Jha said.

Jha said 27 candidates had submitted their nominations on April 10, the first day when filing of papers began.A To a query on the prominent names in on Friday's list he said, "sitting MLAs and ministers are yet to file their nominations".

He said 17.36 lakh new application forms under 'Form 6' had been received from the entire state for inclusion of names in the voters list, out of which 11.26 lakh had been approved.