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BJP to look into reasons for defeat; flags Congress guarantees, changed caste equations

Shocked by the miserable defeat in the Karnataka Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party is set to hold State-level and Assembly constituency-level meetings of its candidates and leaders to decipher the reasons for its loss.

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With Bommai and PTR out, GST Council needs to rejig GoMs

The change of guard after the Assembly election in Karnataka and the Ministerial council shuffle in Tamil Nadu has triggered the need for the GST Council to reconstitute at least three Ministerial panels

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Three first-time MLAs enter Assembly from Yadgir and Raichur districts

The people’s mandate has gone mostly in favour of the Congress in Yadgir and Raichur districts. The party has succeeded in three seats out of four Assembly constituencies in Yadgir district, while it has won four seats out of the seven in Raichur district. Thus, it has bagged seven of the…

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Minority representation has remained low in most Assemblies

The representation of Muslims in the Karnataka Assembly has now marginally increased in this election compared to the last to nine from seven in the last Assembly. All of them are from the Congress. It was 11 in 2013. The JD(S) said 23 of its 211 candidates were Muslims, but…

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Andhra Pradesh: TDP gearing up to organise Mini Mahanadu in Srikakulam on May 17

In the 2019 general elections, the TDP had won only three of the 10 Assembly seats in undivided Srikakulam district. It had also won the Srikakulam Lok Sabha seat, thanks to the cross-voting in favour of party contestant Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu

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BJP should be taught Karnataka lesson in Madhya Pradesh, says Digvijaya Singh

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on said that the BJP should be taught the Karnataka lesson in Madhya Pradesh where the Assembly polls are due by the year-end.

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Karnataka election results 2023 | Everyone who served as Speakers of Assembly lost elections

Legislative Assembly Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri and three former speakers, who were members of the outgoing members of the Assembly, were defeated in the Karnataka Assembly elections 2023.

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‘Modi wave is over’, says Sanjay Raut after Congress’ big win in Karnataka elections

A day after Congress’ big win in the Karnataka Assembly elections, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on May 14 hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claiming that the “Modi wave” is over in the country.

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'Who will be CM?': Newly-elected Congress MLAs to meet in Bengaluru on Sunday evening

The newly-elected Congress MLAs in Karnataka are meeting here on Sunday evening to discuss government formation with leaders eliciting their views on the Chief Ministerial candidate. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Karnataka results set to shift focus of Pilot’s yatra to Rajasthan’s electoral battle

“The people in Karnataka were fed up with unlimited and unbridled corruption of the BJP government,” he said.

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Karnataka Assembly to see several father-son, father-daughter pairs and relatives this time

This time, the people of Karnataka have elected more than one member of a family to the Assembly. The Assembly will see several pairs of father-son, father-daughters on the floor of the House

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Karnataka elections: Congress corners BJP on party president Kharge’s home turf

In a major setback to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Kalaburagi district, the Opposition Congress successfully won seven out of nine Assembly seats, and the BJP slipped from the five seats it won in the last elections to two this election

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Congress surge topples BJP in Karnataka

Karnataka voters have decimated the incumbent BJP and given the Congress an unambiguous mandate, with 136 seats in the 224-member Legislative Assembly.

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Karnataka elections: Congress wins majority of seats in Belagavi district

In Belagavi, the Congress bagged 11 of the 18 seats. The second biggest district after Bengaluru, had 13 BJP MLAs and five Congress members in the outgoing Assembly

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Karnataka elections: BJP wrests one seat each from Congress and JD(S) in Bidar

Results in Bidar brought some solace for the Bharatiya Janata Party as it wrested one seat each from the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular)

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Karnataka election results | AAP receives fewer votes than NOTA

Efforts of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to open its account in the Karnataka Assembly elections yielded no result again. The party, which received the national party tag recently, got fewer votes than NOTA (None of the Above)

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CM inaugurates much-delayed bridge, names it after Mayor Chittibabu

Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Saturday inaugurated the 500-metre-long “Mayor Chittibabu” bridge connecting Kolathur Main Road on the north with ICF Road on the south, constructed at a cost of ₹61.98 crore

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Miserable defeat shakes belief of BJP high command being ‘invincible’

The miserable defeat in the Karnataka Assembly elections of the ruling BJP, whose tally crashed from 104 seats in the last polls to 65 now, has not only shocked the party but also shaken the belief that its high command is “invincible”.

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Karnataka Assembly election results | BJP tripped on experiments with caste matrix

The BJP’s experiments to tinker with the reservation matrix months before the Karnataka State Assembly elections, a series of its decisions that are believed to have riled the influential Lingayat community, and a perceived threat to minorities under the saffron party’s rule

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A flush of fresh faces in the new Karnataka Assembly

As Karnataka delivered an unambiguous verdict on who will lead the next Assembly, it has also made way for many new faces, some of who also emerged as “giant killers,” having managed to defeat big names.

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Nine Muslims elected to the House

Representation of Muslims in the Karnataka Assembly has marginally increased in this election compared to the last.

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Congress, CPI(M) see a middle-of-the-road outcome in 2024 instead of a saffron wave

Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) defeat in the Assembly election in neighbouring Karnataka has buoyed Kerala’s ruling front and Opposition.

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Karnataka poll results derail BJP plan to woo leaders, Congress to put up united face

The sweeping victory of the Congress party in Karnataka has forced the political parties in Telangana to redraw their strategies for the year-end Assembly elections

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Karnataka Assembly election results | PM Modi’s push did little to turn the tide in many constituencies

Prime Minister Narendra Modi headlined the Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign in Karnataka, pitching for a “double engine sarkar”, with the same party in power at both the Centre and State. He held over 20 rallies and roadshows in the State after elections were declared.

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10 women candidates emerge victorious

Out of the 185 women candidates who contested in this year’s State Assembly elections, 10 have emerged victorious including some women who were in the fray for the first time. The outgoing Assembly also had 10 women legislators

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