Karnataka Election 2023: As ballots are being tabulated in the Karnataka election today, the Congress has already surpassed the halfway point. HD Kumaraswamy’s JD(S) is in the lead in more than 25 seats, with the governing BJP leading in more than 70 seats.
Here is a 10-point summary on Karnataka Election 2023
- As Bengaluru was approaching the midway point, the Congress requested that all of its MLAs arrive there. Siddaramaiah of the Congress said he is confident the party would surpass the 120-member threshold. According to rumours, the party has reserved a number of resorts to keep its flock together. The BJP poked fun at it by declaring that the Congress “doesn’t trust its MLAs”.
- Basavaraj S. Bommai, the chief minister, has expressed confidence in a BJP victory. He asserted that the Congress is attempting to engage with other parties because it lacks faith in own lawmakers.
- Although leaders of his Janata Dal Secular say that both the Congress and the BJP have been in contact with them after exit polls forecast a hung assembly, JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy has stated that he is not in touch with any party. ‘There is no demand for me because I am a small party…I’m hoping for a positive outcome,’ he remarked.
- 36 locations are counting votes for the 224 assembly seats in Karnataka where elections were held on Thursday.
- The BJP hopes to overturn a 38-year trend in which the ruling party has never won a second term in office by relying on a powerful campaign led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
- The Congress is expecting for a morale boost to provide it the much-needed platform on which it would establish itself as the main opposition party ahead of the national election next year because it believes in the exact same jinx that the BJP wants to break.
- In majority of the constituencies in Karnataka, there was a three-way race between the BJP, Congress, and JD(S). AAP, which is currently in charge in Delhi and Punjab, had also put forth several candidates. The Nationalist Congress Party of Sharad Pawar has also.
- Today will reveal the electoral fates of several prominent figures, including BJP Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, Congress veterans Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar, and Mr. Kumaraswamy.
- The BJP gained 104 seats in the 2018 elections, compared to the Congress’s 80 and the JDS’s 37. BS Yediyurappa of the BJP established government but left before a majority test. A coalition government was subsequently formed between the JDS and the Congress.
- The coalition government was in place for 14 months before 16 MLAs defected to the BJP, leading to the collapse of the government and the restoration of the BJP to power.
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