The Karnataka High Court has set aside the election of Congress MLA KY Nanjegowda and ordered a recount of votes polled in his Malur constituency in the 2023 Assembly polls, PTI reported on Tuesday.

However, the bench led by Justice R Devadas stayed its own order for a month to allow Nanjegowda to appeal in the Supreme Court.

The judgement came on an election petition filed by KS Manjunath Gowda, the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate who had lost to Nanjegowda. The seat is in the Kolar district.

The petitioner had alleged irregularities in the counting process.

The constituency will become vacant if the Supreme Court does not intervene in the matter, according to PTI.

Nanjegowda had won the election by a margin of 248 votes. In the 2018 state polls, he had defeated KS Manjunath Gowda by a margin of 17,915 votes.

The Congress had won 135 seats in the 224-member Assembly in 2023. The BJP had won 66, followed by 19 of the Janata Dal (Secular).

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