{"id":471251,"date":"2023-05-13T10:41:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T05:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=471251"},"modified":"2023-05-13T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T05:25:09","slug":"karnataka-snake-bjp-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/karnataka-snake-bjp-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid vote counting, snake found in Karnataka BJP office while CM Bommai was present inside"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amid the vote counting for the Karnataka state assembly polls, in an unexpected turn of events, a snake was found inside the office of the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) in Karnataka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The snake was found in Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai\u2019s bastion Shiggaon BJP office. The unexpected visitor was spotted while CM Bommai was entering the premises of the office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> A snake which had entered BJP camp office premises in Shiggaon, rescued; building premises secured amid CM&#39;s presence <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1OgyLLs2wt\">pic.twitter.com\/1OgyLLs2wt<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1657233099321917440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The reptile was seen slithering away, causing a panic for a movement among the office bearers who were present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The snake was immediately rescued by the authorities and the office compound was secured with tight security deployment as the CM was inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident comes at a time when all eyes are on the poll trends and results that is going to decide the fate of the Karnataka and the political parties in fray especially the BJP and the Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reptile with its visit tried to manage a space in the media at a time when it covers all the crucial updates of the vote counting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shiggaon constituency trends is being watched very closely as it is the seat from where the incumbent Chief Minister Bommai has won three times and is hoping for a fourth term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bommai  won the 2018 election from this seat against Congress leader Yasir Ahmed Khan Pathan and Janata Dal Secular (JDS) candidate Sashidhar Channabasappa Yaligar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In current trends, Bommai is leading the Shiggaon seat, at 9:52 am, he was ahead by almost 15, 000 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BJP and the Congress are both confident of a clear majority, while the BJP in one hand hopes to return back to power with full majority breaking the state\u2019s 38 year old tradition. Congress in other hand, is already in the mood for celebrations as majority of the exit polls have predicted a comfortable majority for the grand old party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reptile was seen slithering away, causing a panic for a movement among the office bearers who were present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":471257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Amid vote counting, snake found in Karnataka BJP office while CM Bommai was present inside\n\n#CMBommai #KarnatakaElectionResults\n\n\n\n\n\n","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[86,45172,158605],"yst_prominent_words":[20827,16738,83180,3811,3813,38311,23694,10440,6011,5963,13330,4021,21709,30082,61452,68534,23238],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/05\/13103951\/inauguration_of_new_bjp_headquarter_at_6a_pandit_deendayal_upadhyaya_marg_new_delhi_5_20180219_18269-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471251"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=471251"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=471251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->