People ready to solid their votes at BET Convent in Rajarajeshwari Nagar, for the Assembly elections in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
| Photo Credit: Okay. MURALI KUMAR
Both the BJP and Congress expressed confidence of securing a majority on their very own because the State went to the Assembly polls on Wednesday.
Seeking to downplay the exit polls which have predicted a hung Assembly with a slight edge for the Congress, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai maintained that the exit polls had been sure to see a variance of 5% to 10% compared with the ultimate outcomes. “Let us wait for the actual declaration of results on May 13. The BJP is bound to get majority. There is no possibility of the Janata Dal (S) turning out to be a kingmaker,” he stated.
At the identical time, Congress leaders Siddaramaiah and D.Okay. Shivakumar too maintained that their celebration would type the federal government by itself.
‘No need for alliance’
Mr. Shivakumar, who’s KPCC president, went a step forward and dominated out any risk of having a post-poll alliance with the JD(S), stating that his celebration would attain the midway mark by itself.
Meanwhile, AICC common secretary in cost of Karnataka Randeep Singh Surjewala tweeted: “Mood of Karnataka is a clear vote against incompetence, maladministration and corruption. Mood of Karnataka is a clear vote for governance and progress. The Congress is going to win and win big.”
The day noticed a number of distinguished political leaders, together with Mr. Bommai, AICC president M. Mallikarjun Kharge, Mr. Siddaramaiah, former Chief Ministers B. S. Yediyurappa and H. D. Kumaraswamy, JD(S) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda and Mr. Shivakumar exercising their franchise together with relations.
All with households
The Chief Minister exercised his franchise on the authorities mannequin faculty in Shiggaon alongside along with his spouse, son, and daughter.
Mr. Kharge, alongside along with his spouse Radhabai Kharge, solid his vote at Basavanagar in Kalaburagi whereas Mr. Siddaramaiah voted at a sales space at a public faculty in his native Siddaramanahundi in Varuna constituency.
Mr. Yediyurappa solid his vote in Shikaripur alongside along with his two sons, whereas Mr. Kumaraswamy exercised his franchise at Ketaganahalli in Ramangara taluk alongside along with his spouse, son, and daughter-in-law. Another Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda voted in Bengaluru along with his relations.
Nonagenarian votes
Mr. Deve Gowda, who will flip 91 quickly, solid his vote at Paduvalahippe in Holenarasipur taluk of Hassan district. “The results of the election will come out on May 13. Kumaraswamy’s Pancharathna Yatra received an impressive response. I am hopeful that people will express confidence in him,” the previous Prime Minister stated.
