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Karnataka 2023: What the results tell us, and what they don’t

As is usual with poll outcomes, the Karnataka poll results have seen a flurry of commentary and takeaway exercises. This has resulted in the media space being clogged by an overdose of reading between the lines. One media portal even permitted a historian to slip into the role of political analyst.…

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As race for Karnataka CM post intensifies, Siddaramaiah reaches Delhi; D.K. Shivakumar cancels visit

Siddarmaiah left for Delhi by a special flight to meet the AICC leaders, including party president Mallikarjun Kharge, for holding discussions on the chief ministerial candidate.

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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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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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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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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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Intense lobbying for Chief Minister’s post in Congress with caste factors coming into play

The run-up to the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting on Sunday evening was marked by intense lobbying by the former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president D.K. Shivakumar in a bid to be chosen as Chief Minister of the State. The two leaders had put up…

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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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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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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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Did Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti candidates upset the plans of national parties in Belagavi district?

Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MES), the party that was dismissed by some political leaders as non-existent a few weeks ago, seems to have upset the plans of both the Congress and the BJP in Belagavi district.

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BJP mulls rethink on fate of its regional satraps post Karnataka results

BJP’s defeat in Karnataka has given much food for thought for the party’s national leadership, including the treatment of regional satraps in the poll going states of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

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Karnataka: Independent MLA Lata Mallikarjun extends unconditional support to Congress

Newly elected independent MLA Lata Mallikarjun from Harpanhalli Assembly has extended unconditional support to Congress in Karnataka. Read further on Dynamite News:

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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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Congress deputes Sushil Kumar Shinde, Jitendra Singh, Deepak Babaria as observers for election of CLP leader in Karnataka

The meeting of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) has been convened to discuss the next course of formation of the government, said sources in the party

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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 polls: Shivakumar stages 'dharna' alleging govt machinery's misuse post BJP's narrow win in Jayanagar

Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar staged a 'dharna' in front of the counting centre in Jayanagar on Saturday night alleging the misuse of government machinery to favour BJ P candidate CK Ramamurthy who won with a narrow margin of 16 votes. 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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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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