Ballot paper delivers a four-zero verdict; Cong left searching for answers

BD Narayankar Bengaluru, Nov 1 (UNI) Politics has a way of producing ironies that no scriptwriter could improve upon. Karnataka has just witnessed one. The Congress, whose national leadership has made a sustained campaign for ballot papers against EVMs, has suffered a four-nil defeat in an election conducted through ballot papers. The BJP-JD(S) alliance has won all four Legislative Council constituencies. The irony is not lost on the BJP, which has found in the result an opportunity to turn Rahul Gandhi's own political argument against his party. The ballot paper, in the Congress narrative, has been the symbol of electoral…