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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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Eknath Shinde | The chosen rebel

Shinde, who become a Sena branch head in Thane when he was just 18 in 1982, modelled his personality on Dighe.

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Focus on local issues and support of all communities behind Congress emphatic win, say analysts

Political analysts and experts who dissected May 13 poll results, in which the Congress scored an emphatic victory over BJP and the JD(S), said that the winning party edged its rivals as it focused on local issues and found the support of all communities.

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High drama at counting centre for Jayanagar constituency as BJP wins by 16 votes

High drama unfurled at SSMRV PU College where votes were being counted for Jayanagar constituency on Saturday as five rounds of recounting happened after incumbent MLA Sowmya Reddy was first declared the winner by a slender margin of 160 votes against BJP’s C.K. Ramamurthy. The BJP leader then demanded recounting,…

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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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Karnataka elections: Ballari back in control of the Congress

The Congress has won all five seats in Ballari and two seats in Vijayanagara district, which was recently carved out of Ballari. The BJP has been left with only one seat (Hadagali) in the united Ballari district.

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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: Former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar suffers humiliating defeat

In the election to Hubballi-Dharwad Central Assembly constituency, a contest referred to as a fight between the ‘Lingayat hurt sentiment’ card of former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar and the ‘betrayal card’ of the BJP, Mr. Shettar has been handed out a shocking and humiliating defeat

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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 elections: Congress sweeps Kalyana Karnataka with development perspective defeating BJP’s communal agenda

In a spectacular performance, the Congress bagged 26 seats out of 41 in Kalyana Karnataka in the 2023 Assembly Elections, leaving 10 for the BJP and three for the Janata Dal (Secular) and two for others

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Karnataka Elections | Fierce fight in four constituencies in Bengaluru

The run-up to the election results in four constituencies — Rajarajeswarinagar, Rajajinagar, Gandhinagar, and Jayanagar — in Bengaluru kept citizens and parties on tenterhooks.

The Hindu

BJP’s Karnataka defeat a verdict against its anti-people policies: Pinarayi

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s electoral defeat in Karnataka is a verdict against its anti-people policies, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said.

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Karnataka elections | Bengaluru continues tradition of re-voting incumbents

As the 2023 State Assembly elections threw up some big upsets and victories, capital city Bengaluru failed to throw up any major surprises. Continuing its tradition of re-voting incumbents, the city voted back to power a majority of the candidates across the 28 assembly constituencies.

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Congress trumps BJP and JD(S) across all regions, except coast

In what is perceived as a wave election, Congress has trumped its opponents Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal (Secular) across all regions, except in Coastal Karnataka where BJP has been successful in holding on to its fort.

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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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In Varanasi BJP’s Ashok Tiwari defeats SP by 1.33L votes to become new mayor

VARANASI: Maintaining its monopoly on the mayor’s seat of Varanasi Municipal Corporation since 1995, Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) Ashok Tiwari defeated Samajwadi Party’s Om Prakash Singh by a marhin of 1,33,137 votes on Saturday.

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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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The BJP’s Karnataka defeat — a blow to its mythmaking

The Congress’ decisive win in Karnataka shatters two myths about the BJP’s electoral dominance — the idea of “subaltern Hindutva” and the popularity of the “double engine” slogan.

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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.

The Hindu

Most party-hoppers fail to win, barring some exceptions like Savadi

Barring some, most of the leaders, who rebelled against their parties to contest on ticket of other parties have failed to impress the electorate and failed in the Karnataka Assembly election the results of which were announced on Saturday.

The Hindu

PM’s two visits this year did not help BJP retain its seats in Shivamogga

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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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