New Delhi: The Congress secured a cushty majority within the Karnataka meeting elections. The Congress is all set to win over 130 seats whereas the BJP was restricted under 70 seats. The victory comes as a major enhance for the Congress earlier than the Lok Sabha elections subsequent 12 months. This election is the primary of 5 important state elections that can happen this 12 months and is anticipated to set the tone for the parliamentary elections as properly. With the BJP dropping a key battle in Karnataka, opposition leaders got here out praising the individuals of Karnataka and lambasting the saffron celebration for pursuing ‘divisive politics’.
Reacting to Congress victory, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee mentioned that it is a defeat of ‘brute authoritarian and majoritarian politics’. “My salutations to the people of Karnataka for their decisive mandate in favour of change!! Brute authoritarian and majoritarian politics is vanquished!! When people want plurality and democratic forces to win, no central design to dominate can repress their spontaneity : that is the moral of the story, lesson for tomorrow,” she mentioned.
My salutations to the individuals of Karnataka for his or her decisive mandate in favour of change!! Brute authoritarian and majoritarian politics is vanquished!! When individuals need plurality and democratic forces to win, no central design to dominate can repress their spontaneity : that’s…
— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) May 13, 2023
The triumph is more likely to mark the revial of troubled Congress which has witnessed a spat of losses in state elections during the last 9 years. National Conference (NC) chief Omar Abdullah mentioned there’s ‘no method’ the BJP can have the braveness to ‘enable’ meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir after its efficiency within the Karnataka polls. “Now there is no way BJP will have the courage to allow assembly elections to take place in Jammu and Kashmir any time soon #KarnatakaElectionResults,” Abdullah, the vp of the NC, mentioned in a tweet.
Senior Congress chief Digvijaya Singh mentioned, “Once again the Congress party is going to form its government in Karnataka. BJP stands wiped out from southern India.”
Following the state citizens’s rejection of the present Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP)-led state authorities within the Karnataka State Assembly Elections 2023 and within the wake of Congress’ overwhelming victory, senior chief Rahul Gandhi declared on Saturday that “shops of love have opened in Karnataka” and that “the markets of hatred have closed down.”
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ANI (ANI) May 13, 2023
Senior Congress chief Siddaramaiah mentioned, “The state’s citizens rejected the political platforms of JP Nadda, Amit Shah, and PM Modi. PM Modi visited Karnataka twenty times. No prime minister has ever run for office in such a manner before.”
This is a victory for a secular celebration!!
People of Karnataka needed a steady authorities that delivers as promised, and therefore have given the mandate for Congress!!
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) May 13, 2023
Meanwhile, reacting to BJP’s efficiency, Congress chief BK Hariprasad says, “Who is Shah to say that Karnataka will not obtain favours if it would not vote for Modi? Modi, a god? Nadda claims that in case you do not help the BJP, no federal programmes will likely be made out there to the state. Third-highest taxpayer within the nation is Karnataka; we’re neither UP nor Bihar.
Who is Shah to say that if Karnataka would not vote for Modi the state will not get blessings?Is Modi a god?Nadda says in case you do not vote for BJP,then no Central schemes will likely be prolonged to the state. Karnataka third highest tax payer in nation…we’re not UP or Bihar:BK Hariprasad,Cong pic.twitter.com/r82R3xzS9d
— ANI (@ANI) May 13, 2023
The head of the Congress, Mallikarjun Kharge, says: “I thank the individuals of Karnataka for giving the Congress a big mandate. Their religion in us will likely be upheld by us. All of the welfare programmes that we promised to undertake in our platform will likely be carried out. I give because of Sonia, Priyanka, and Rahul Gandhi for his or her campaigning for us regardless of being unwell.
This is actually the victory of the People of Karnataka.
They have voted for his or her progressive future, their welfare & social justice.
With folded palms, we thank them for placing their belief in us.
Congress celebration shall implement the 5 ensures.
Jai Karnataka! Jai Hind!
— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) May 13, 2023
Akhilesh Yadav, the chief of the Samajwadi Party, claimed on Saturday that the Karnataka meeting election tendencies that predict a victory for the Congress sign the “beginning” of the “end” of the BJP’s divisive, communal, and corrupt techniques.
In a tweet written in Hindi, Yadav acknowledged: “The message from Karnataka is that the ‘antkaal (end)’ of the BJP’s negative, communal, corrupt, pro-rich, anti-women, anti-youth, socially divisive, propaganda, individual-centric politics has begun.” “This is a strict mandate of a new positive India against inflation, unemployment, corruption, and animosity,” he continued.
कर्नाटक का संदेश ये है कि भाजपा की नकारात्मक, सांप्रदायिक, भ्रष्टाचारी, अमीरोन्मुखी, महिला-युवा विरोधी, सामाजिक-बँटवारे, झूठे प्रचारवाली, व्यक्तिवादी राजनीति का ‘अंतकाल’ शुरू हो गया है।
ये नये सकारात्मक भारत का महंगाई, बेरोज़गारी, भ्रष्टाचार व वैमनस्य के ख़िलाफ़ सख़्त जनादेश…
— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) May 13, 2023
Ashok Gehlot, the chief minister of Rajasthan, responded to the tendencies within the meeting election outcomes that confirmed the Congress advancing to victory by declaring that Karnataka had chosen the politics of growth above communal politics.
श्री राहुल गांधी की भारत जोड़ो यात्रा के दौरान कर्नाटक में जो माहौल दिखा था आज उसी का नतीजा कर्नाटक के चुनाव परिणाम में स्पष्ट दिख रहा है। यूपीए चेयरपर्सन श्रीमती सोनिया गांधी, कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष श्री मल्लिकार्जुन खड़गे, श्री राहुल गांधी एवं श्रीमती प्रियंका गांधी के नेतृत्व में…
Ashok Gehlot (@ashokgehlot51) May 13, 2023
The Chhattisgarh chief minister, Bhupesh Baghel, responded to the Congress’ dominant exhibiting within the Karnataka Assembly elections by saying, “They spoke about a ‘Congress-Mukt Bharat’ but now, entire South India has become ‘BJP Mukt’.