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KARNATAKA ASSEMBLY ELECTION

CONGRESS

CRUSHES MODI

The grand old party scores an emphatic victory over BJP whose campaign was led by Prime

Minister Narendra Modi. Does Congress now have an advantage for more assembly elections
in 2023 and the national election in 2024?

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Bengaluru/New Delhi
ubilant Congress workers across
the country started celebrating
Jas the grand old party edged
towards victory in the Karnataka As-
sembly elections on Saturday. The
party workers gathered at Congress
headquarters in Uttar Pradesh, As-
sam, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Hary-
ana, Jharkhand, and Bihar to dis-
tribute sweets. They also danced in
the streets to the tune of drums and
waved flags.
Congress president Mallikarjun
Kharge said the party’s victory in Kar-
nataka is an outcome of “collective
work” of party leaders and workers
and that the party would work to-
wards consensus to choose its chief
ministerial candidate. Talking to re-
porters as the trends showed an em-
phatic Congress victory, Kharge said
people of all communities voted for
the Congress. He said the party will
work towards fulfilling its election
promises.
Congress won an emphatic vic-
tory in Karnataka polls on Saturday,
pushing BJP out of power in the only Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with party leaders addresses the media at AICC in New Delhi on Saturday (ANI Photo/Amit Sharma)
southern state it ruled, and boosting
its own prospects for the electoral emerged as the single largest party taka with even more vigour in the is to choose a chief ministerial can-
battles ahead. Congress has won 137 with 104 seats, Congress won 80 seats times to come. “Congratulations to didate with both state Congress chief
seats, comfortably crossing the half- and JD(S) got 37 seats. the Congress Party for their victory DK Shivakumar and former chief
way mark in the 224-member Kar- The Congress victory has come at in the Karnataka Assembly polls. My minister Siddaramaiah aspirants for
nataka assembly. Bharatiya Janata a time when it is seeking momentum best wishes to them in fulfilling peo- the post.
Party is poised to win 65 seats. JD(S) ahead of assembly polls later this year ple’s aspirations,” PM Modi said in a Congress leader and former MP
won 19 seats, independents have won in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, tweet. Rahul Gandhi hailed the party’s vic-
two seats, while Kalyana Rajya Prag- Rajasthan and Telangana and the Lok “I thank all those who have sup- tory in Karnataka assembly polls and
athi Paksha and Sarvodaya Karnataka Sabha polls next year. ported us in the Karnataka elections. said that people of the state defeated
Paksha won one seat each. Prime Minister Narendra Modi I appreciate the hardwork of BJP the “politics of hate”. Speaking to re-
An incumbent government has congratulated Congress over its victo- Karyakartas. We shall serve Karnata- porters at the Congress headquarters
not returned to power in Karnataka ry in assembly polls. He appreciated ka with even more vigour in the times in the national capital, Rahul Gandhi
after a full term of five years since the hard work of BJP workers and to come,” he added. said that the Congress stood with the
1985. In the 2018 assembly polls, BJP said that the party will serve Karna- The next task for the Congress Continued on next page... >>

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