The high-octane Karnataka meeting election proved useful to the Congress because the social gathering acquired a large increase within the state, setting BJP to the backfoot. With a bunch of social welfare guarantees and anti-corruption plank, the grand outdated social gathering received the state election with a thumping majority at 135 seats out of a complete 224. BJP grew to become the state’s opposition social gathering and secured 66 seats.

The meeting election journey noticed faces of a number of stalwarts from Congress – Siddaramaiah, D Okay Shivakumar, Mallikarjun Kharge, even Rahul Gandhi – versus the BJP – Narendra Modi – which led the right-wing social gathering in direction of its humbling defeat, setting a reminder that referring to the Prime Minister with non-Hindi talking belt remains to be a problem.

Here are 10 tales from our newspaper to tell you about all that occurred within the Karnataka meeting election verdict

How did the seats flip for Congress? Check out what the election arithmetic says

The Karnataka meeting election verdict was a large increase to the Congress and a setback for the BJP, because the grand outdated social gathering stormed to a good-looking majority banking on a powerful anti-corruption plank and a bunch of social welfare guarantees. Read more

Congress has acquired two powerful contenders for CM put up, each their names start with an ‘S’: Know about them right here

They started their political journeys in starkly other ways. One rose by the ranks of native politics earlier than getting into the meeting in 1983 and the opposite has remained a lifelong Congressman, starting his foray in politics as a 27-year-old whiz child of kinds in 1989. Read more

Despite having robust foothold, why did JD(S) lose out on Muslim vote financial institution?

For the primary time since 2008, a Muslim has didn’t win on a Janata Dal (S) ticket — the social gathering has a powerful presence on Old Mysuru area, which has about 11% Muslim inhabitants — indicating one of many attention-grabbing sub-strands of the Karnataka election outcomes, a consolidation of Muslim votes within the area in favour of the Congress. Read more

‘The one who isn’t defeated’ to ‘son of soil’: One who will get job achieved

In his five-decade-long profession, 80-year-old Mallikarjun Kharge was a part of the successful Congress Karnataka crew thrice earlier than – in 1992 when Veerappa Moily grew to become chief minister, in 1999 when SM Krishna acquired the highest job after which in 2013, when Sonia Gandhi selected the social gathering’s new recruit (from Janata Dal-Secular) Siddaramaiah over Kharge. Read more

Faces from Congress v/s face of BJP: Campaign trails within the run-up to the elections

The Congress’s marketing campaign in Karnataka had many faces — Siddaramaiah, D Okay Shivakumar, Mallikarjun Kharge, even Rahul Gandhi. In distinction, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s had just one — Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Read more

Congress’ victory has crushed JD(S) hope to turn out to be kingmaker: Is Karnataka heading in direction of bipolar polity?

Until the counting of votes started in Karnataka the Janata Dal (Secular) or JD (S) hoped to play kingmaker within the state. Those hopes have been crushed with the Congress successful 136 out of the 224 meeting constituencies (ACs) within the state and the JD (S)’s personal seat tally coming down from 37 to twenty. Will Karnataka now transfer in direction of a bipolar polity the place the JD (S) more and more turns into a marginal political power? Read more

Did Bharat Jodo Yatra have impression on Karnataka elections?

A pointy enhance in strike fee and vote share — that’s the impression of the Bharat Jodo yatra in Karnataka. The 2023 Karnataka elections are the primary in a state which was coated within the 146 days lengthy Bharat Jodo Yatra led by the previous Congress president Rahul Gandhi. Read more

Mixed bag of outcomes for 2 Lingayat leaders – Shettar and Savadi

It was a combined bag of outcomes for 2 senior Lingayat leaders, Jagadish Shettar and Laxman Savadi, who converted to the Congress from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) within the run-up to the Karnataka meeting elections, the outcomes of which have been introduced on Saturday. Read more

Sequence of defeat for JD(S) in electoral battle

From kingmaker to a bit participant, the decline within the fortunes of the Janata Dal (Secular), led by former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, has been nothing in need of dramatic. Read more

Ahead of ballot verdict, BJP-Congress approached JD(S) searching for alliance

With some exit polls suggesting that no social gathering would cross the bulk mark within the Karnataka meeting elections, the Janata Dal (Secular) on Friday claimed to have been approached by each the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress for a post-poll alliance to kind the subsequent authorities. Read more