Asembly elections are due in the next one year in Telangana and Madhya Pradesh as also in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, where it is in power ''I am happy we contested the Karnataka polls without using hate, bad language. ''The Bharat Jodo Yatra was the Sanjeevini for the party,'' Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh told PTI.Ī campaign against corruption, guarantees of dole and consolidation of Muslim votes appear to have underpinned the Congress victory that was also aided by anti-incumbency against the BJP government.Ĭongress party's hyper-localised campaign, a bold gambit of a proposed Bajrang Dal ban, a promise of five guarantees, prominence to state leadership and deft caste and class combinations in Karnataka could, going forward, serve as a template to counter the hitherto successful blend of BJP's ''welfare outreach'' and Hindutva politics. The Congress also hailed the Bharat Jodo Yatra for the party's success in the home state of party president Mallikarjun Kharge having won 15 of the 20 assembly constituencies in the state the Rahul Gandhi-led foot march passed through. With a much-needed victory in the crucial southern state in the Congress bag, celebrations broke out at its offices across the country, from Bengaluru to Bikaner and Ranchi to Ahmedabad, as party workers danced to drumbeats and burst firecrackers. Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the Congress for its win and wished the party best in its endeavour to fulfilling people's aspirations. The Congress made huge inroads into the JD(S)' Vokkaliga stronghold in Old Mysuru region. The JD-S, which had hoped to be kingmaker, won 19 seats, down from 37 last time with its vote share decreasing to 13.32 per cent from 18 per cent in the previous elections. R Ashoka who too contested from two constituencies was re-elected from Padmanabhanagar but lost in Kanakapura. V Somanna lost from Varuna and Chamarajanagar, the two segments where he contested. They are Govinda Karjol, J C Madhuswamy, B C Patil, Shankar Patil Munena Koppa, Halappa Achar, B Sriramul, Dr K Sudhakar, B C Nagesh, Murugesha Nirani, B C Patil and M T B Nagaraj. We will take these results in our stride and try to reorganise the party for next year's Lok Sabha elections,'' said Bommai who won from Shiggaon.Īs many as 14 ministers tasted defeat at the hustings. ''We will do a detailed analysis as the results conclude. It was the second loss for the BJP after Himachal Pradesh in December last year.Īs BJP leaders were contemplative in defeat, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said the party could not make the mark "in spite of a lot of effort put in by everyone, including the prime minister and workers of the party''. Though its vote share decreased only marginally from 36.2 per cent to 36 per cent, the BJP's seat tally slumped to 65 from 104 in 2018. The BJP managed to retain its hold only in Coastal Karnataka while it was a mixed bag in Bengaluru. Of the six regions in the state, the Congress swept the Old Mysuru, Mumbai Karnataka, Hyderabad Karnataka and Central Karnataka regions. The party bagged 80 seats in the 2018 elections with a vote share of 38 per cent.ĪLSO WATCH: Did Rahul Gandhi, DK Shivakumar celebrate Karnataka Election win by dancing to Nacho Nacho? Here's the twist It was also the Congress' best-ever performance in Karnataka since 1999 when the party won 132 seats. Helped by a nearly five per cent vote swing in its favour, the Congress with a vote share of 42.88 per cent bagged 135 out of the 224 seats at stake and was leading in one, according to Election Commission data at 9 pm.
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