Will sex tapes impact BJP in third round?

The murder of Neha Hiremath by her former classmate in her college campus in Hubballi on April 18, Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna's sex tapes and sexual abuse, and the Congress government's five guarantees versus Prime Ministe Narendra Modi's guarantees dominated the poll narrative for the campaigning for the 14 remaining Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka that go to polls on May 7.

However, the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) efforts to convert the Hiremath murder case into vote bank by projecting it as an incident of love jihad, as well as the Congress attempt to corner the BJP over the sex tapes are unlikely to have much impact on voters in in Chikkodi, Belagaum, Bagalkot, Bijapur (SC), Gulbarga (SC), Raichur (ST), Bidar, Koppal, Bellary (SC), Haveri, Dharwad, Uttara Kannada, Davanagere and Shimoga, who will exercise their franchise on Tuesday.