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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 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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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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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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Manipur Chief Minister Biren Singh, 4 Ministers, State BJP chief meet Amit Shah, Nadda in Delhi

Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, accompanied by four of his Cabinet Ministers and BJP State president Sarada Devi, met Union Home Minister Amit Shah amid violence last week and the demand by 10 tribal MLAs of the Chin-Kuki-Mizo-Zomi group that there be a separate administration for the hill regions

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Police arrest youth who brandishes sword during victory procession in Vijayapura

The police on Sunday arrested a 23-year-old man on the charge of brandishing a sword during the victory procession of a BJP leader in Vijayapura.

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Bommai front runner for Leader of the Opposition post

Caretaker Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is likely to be chosen as the Leader of the Opposition by the BJP, which is expected to hold a legislature party meeting within this week.

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BJP will fight to end despotic rule, usher in Rama Rajyam in Telangana: Assam Chief Minister

Assam Chief Minister Hemanta Biswa Sarma participated in the Hindu Ekta Yatra organised by BJP Telangana president to mark the Hanuman Jayanti celebrations

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Viral video of slogans in favour of Pakistan is fake, says Congress leader

Congress leader Asif (Raju) Sait has clarified that the video of some youth raising slogans in favour of Pakistan in Belagavi is doctored.

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Hanuman jayanthi celebrated, sobha yatras organised in Vijayawada

From early morning itself, devotees flocked to different temples of Lord Hanuman, including those in Benz Circle and Indrakeeladri.

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Money power defeated Shettar, says Savadi

Money power and BJP’s concerted efforts have led to the defeat of Jagadish Shettar, Laxman Savadi, Congress leader and former Deputy Chief Minister, said in Belagavi on Sunday.

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Karnataka elections: Kerala rejoicing at the victory of three Malayalis

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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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Jagadish Shettar leaves for Bengaluru

The former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, who quit the BJP just before the elections to join the Congress and lost in Hubballi-Dharwad Central, on Sunday left for Bengaluru to meet AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge and other senior Congress leaders.

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Mahadevappa, Sait and Venkatesh among ministerial hopefuls from Mysuru

With the Congress bagging eight out of the eleven seats in Mysuru district, speculation is underway over who will make it to the Ministry in the new government.

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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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New Congress Legislature Party asks Mallikarjun Kharge to pick next Karnataka Chief Minister

As the race for the chief ministership of Karnataka hotted up between Mr. Siddaramaiah and mr. Shivakumar, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on May 14 rushed back to Delhi and said the AICC observers will convey the opinion of the party’s MLAs to the high command which will then take a…

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