Karnataka Election Results Reactions HIGHLIGHTS - Historic Win And Message For The Country, Says Sachin Pilot
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Polling concluded in Karnataka to elect the 224-member Legislative Assembly on May 10 with the southern state recording a voter turnout of 72 per cent till 5 pm. The state is seeing a three-cornered fight between the incumbent BJP, an aggressive Congress, and the Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular), which would hope to play kingmaker again.
A total of 3,632 candidates, with 707 from the incumbent BJP and 651 from the Congress, and 1,720 Independents, besides a considerable number of JD(S) members, are in the fray.
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Karnataka has 224 constituencies spanning six regions -- Bengaluru, Central, Coastal, Hyderabad-Karnataka, Mumbai-Karnataka and Southern Karnataka or Old Mysore region. Mumbai-Karnataka and Southern Karnataka are the largest regions of the state and consist of 50 and 51 Assembly seats respectively.
While the BJP hopes to buck the 38-year trend of Karnataka never voting the incumbent party to power since 1985, the Congress looks to wrest the state after its government formed following the last election in 2018, collapsed. In the 2018 election, Deve Gowda's son HD Kumaraswamy became the CM after JD(S) entered into a post-poll alliance with Congress. No party secured a majority in that election.
However, the government lasted barely a year, with the BJP weaning away MLAs, leading to the collapse of the JD(S)-Congress government in July 2019. The BJP had emerged as the single largest party in the House in the 2018 election, winning 104 seats
Several pollsters predicted that the Congress may have an edge in Karnataka, which is the BJP's southern citadel, in a hung assembly with a couple of them even projecting that the grand old party may get a majority on its own.
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, however, rejected the exit polls and asserted that his party will win with a clear majority
Karnataka Election Results Reactions Live - 'See It As A Trend': Himanta Sarma Says Before BJP Victory In LS Polls, Cong Wins In Karnataka
"Before every Lok Sabha election, Congress won the Assembly election in Karnataka. I think you can see it as a trend. Congress won assembly elections in 2014 and PM Modi won in parliament," said Assam CM and BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Karnataka Election Results Reactions Live - Victory Of Secular Forces Against Hate Politics, Says AK Antony
"The clear message is that it is a victory of secular forces against hate politics. National message is if the secular voters can unite, they can easily throw out the Modi Govt in 2024 election. In one of the speeches in Karnataka, Rahul Gandhi made a light comment. Only for that, a national leader who got elected by more than 4 lakh votes was disqualified from Lok Sabha and thrown out of his house. Karnataka's people don't like it," ANI quoted Congress leader AK Antony as saying.
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