BJP leading in 8 LS seats in Karnataka (Lead)

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading in 7 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka after the first round of vote count on Thrusday, an official said.

"The BJP is leading in Koppal, Uttara Kannada, Bijapur (SC), Bidar, Haveri, Bangalore Central, Bellary and Chikkaballapur over the Congress and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S)," the official told IANS here.

Vote count in the 28 parliamentary seats, which started at 8 a.m., is underway in all the 28 counting centres across the southern state. IANS