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Madhya Pradesh: Five including BJP leader's son drown in Ajnal and Narmada rivers

Five youths drowned to death in two separate incidents in Harda and Jabalpur districts. Read further on Dynamite News:

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‘You can’t sell the same product...all the time’: Sibal takes dig at BJP over Karnataka poll verdict

Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Monday took a swipe at the BJP over its defeat in the Karnataka elections. Must read full detail on Dynamite News:

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Karnataka CM: Central observers to return to Delhi today, present report before Congress president Kharge

Three central observers appointed by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) in Karnataka, will return to the national capital on Monday and present their report to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on the question of appointing the chief minister of the State. Read further on Dynamite News:

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"Still haven't decided..." DK Shivakumar on his visit to Delhi today

Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) chief DK Shivakumar on Monday said that he is still in a dilemma, about whether he should go to Delhi or not. Read further on Dynamite News:

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South India is now BJP-mukt: Minister

Energy Minister G. Jagadish Reddy and MLA A. Jeevan Reddy termed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s debacle in Karnataka as “rebellion” against the party, saying that south India is now ‘BJP-mukt’ (BJP-free)

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More than 50 Muslim candidates have won on BJP symbol in local body polls, says U.P. BJP

More than 50 Muslim candidates out of the 395 fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won in the urban local body elections in Uttar Pradesh, including five for posts of Nagar Panchayat Chairpersons.

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2023 Karnataka Assembly elections | Welfare schemes fail to propel BJP to power

Survey finds that a higher proportion of voters benefited from at least one Central scheme compared with a State scheme.

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2023 Karnataka Assembly elections | Double-engine model did not convince voters

Despite the larger appeal of this model as witnessed in high-octane campaigns, it did not have the desired impact on the voters in the State.

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2023 Karnataka Assembly elections | BJP’s failure to tackle unemployment, poverty hit it hard

Nearly 30% of voters said unemployment was the biggest issue this election compared with just 3% in 2018

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Triumph in U.P. local body polls with ‘security’ pitch boosts BJP ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha polls

The BJP called the verdict a “trailer” for the 2024 Lok Sabha poll.

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2023 Karnataka Assembly elections | How voters responded to the new reservation matrix

In the Lokniti-CSDS survey done during the election campaign, a few questions were asked to measure the response of voters to the new reservation policy announced by the BJP government.

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2023 Karnataka Assembly elections | Issue of corruption resonated with voters ahead of election day

Many commentators and observers of Karnataka politics have pointed out that corruption became a crucial issue for the voters in the Assembly election.

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2023 Karnataka Assembly elections | How the Congress won an absolute majority

Focusing on local issues and stitching together a broad social coalition that lent it huge support helped the party win a comfortable majority in the State

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Letters to The Editor — May 15, 2023

Readers’ mail to The Hindu’s Letters to The Editor

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Lessons in a loss: On the 2023 Karnataka Assembly election result

Between the failed experiment of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the successful one of the Congress, Karnataka voters have imparted important lessons

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The Ahinda advantage for the Congress

The Lingayats supported the BJP, while the rest supported the Congress

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Dissatisfaction with the government’s performance mattered

More than four in every 10 who were ‘somewhat satisfied’ with the Modi government also went on to vote for the Congress

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The leadership factor

In line with the Congress being favoured as the ruling party, there was corresponding support for its leader Siddaramaiah

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In Bengaluru, maintaining victory margins is a task for MLAs

Quite a few elected representatives in Bengaluru have had trouble in improving their victory margins

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Sowmya Reddy seeks support to fight ‘injustice’

The Jayanagar election result controversy continued to rage on a day later, as the former MLA Sowmya Reddy, who lost by a slim margin to the BJP candidate, sought “continued support” to fight the injustice of “foul play“

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Karnataka poll statistics enthuse Telangana Congress

Telangana Congress has 43 lakh digital members and Karnataka 62 lakh despite being double the size

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I will be politically active in Tamil Nadu: Sasikanth Senthil

Sasikanth Senthil, a native of Tamil Nadu, who quit the civil services and joined the Congress party in 2019 and was appointed chairperson of the Congress war room in Karnataka, got the better of BJP State president and former IPS officer K. Annamalai in the recently concluded election

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BJP draws blank in ST constituencies

Despite the BJP government increasing the reservation quota for the Scheduled Tribes from 3% to 7%, the party suffered shocking defeats in the reserved constituencies. The BJP failed to capitalise on its experiments with the reservation quota to the Scheduled Castes (SCs). While it increased the quota from 15% to…

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Karnataka election results | Eight seats were decided by wafer-thin margins of less than 1,000 votes

Providing a nail-biting finish to the high-pitched Karnataka Assembly elections, Jayanagar constituency, where 16 votes separated the winner and the loser, became a talking point. As many as eight seats were decided by wafer-thin margins of less than 1,000 votes with the Congress and the BJP having five and three…

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In its best since 1989, 34 Veerashaiva-Lingayat legislators win from Congress

The confusion among the Veerashiava-Lingayats, especially in Kittur Karnataka region, following the exits of Jagadish Shettar and Laxman Savadi weeks before the elections, is being seen as the precipitating factor for the community’s perceived shift to Congress from BJP.

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