Bengaluru: The high-voltage marketing campaign for the May 10 meeting elections in Karnataka ended on Monday with prime leaders together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi holding 19 public conferences and 6 roadshows whereas Congress chief Rahul Gandhi camped within the state for 12 days. All three main political events within the state – the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress and the Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) – have put all their efforts to woo the voters, making guarantees and launching accusations at one another to safe a majority within the state’s 224-seat Assembly.Â
The Karnataka meeting will go to polls on May 10 and the counting of votes will happen on May 13. The majority mark to kind the federal government is 113 seats. The BJP which is going through an air of anti-incumbency issue, is eyeing a second time period within the state and has exuded confidence in retaining energy with a full majority.
The Lingayat and Vokkaliga voters will play a significant component within the elections. Lingayats comprise 17 per cent of the inhabitants and Vokkaligas 11 per cent. Union Home Minister Amit Shah stated the occasion will return to energy with a full majority. Shah held a mega roadshow in Doddaballapura on Sunday. “We will win the elections by full majority or at least half a mark plus 15 seats. In these four years, Yediyurappa and the Bommai government has done a lot of work,” the Union Home Minister stated.
Significantly, Karnataka is the one state within the South the place BJP is in energy. With prime management together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah campaigning for the occasion, BJP put all its may to strengthen its assist base.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed 19 public conferences and held six roadshows. Amit Shah held 16 public rallies and 14 roadshows. BJP chief JP Nadda held 10 public conferences and 16 roadshows. Hectic electioneering by leaders of assorted political events noticed BJP permitting Union Ministers and Chief Ministers to marketing campaign with their full pressure whereas Congress placing its chief ministers together with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as star campaigners.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held 4 election rallies and held a roadshow. Further, a number of union ministers together with Nirmala Sithraman, Nitin Gadkari, S Jaishankar, Ashwini Vaishnav, Smriti Irani and Jyotiraditya Scindia. BJP additionally pitted a number of chief ministers together with UP CM Yogi Adityanath, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma, Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan and his Maharashtra counterpart Eknath Shinde within the marketing campaign fray of Karnataka.
Attacks And Counter-Attacks
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The Congress then again labored laborious to wrest energy from the BJP that’s striving to interrupt the 38-year-old sample of alternating governments and retain its energy within the state. Congress leaders, together with Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge, held numerous roadshows, rallies and elections campaigns.
With the disagreement between prime weapons of all the foremost political events, the campaigns of the election of the southern citadel noticed allegations and accusations flying thick and quick. Several problems with the state had been promised to be solved.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday expressed confidence that BJP will win 135 seats in Karnataka polls and termed Congress as “a drowning ship”. Addressing a press convention on the final day of the marketing campaign in Karnataka, the senior BJP chief stated a “double-engine government” is crucial for the event of the southern state.
“Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah did roadshows and rallies. I am confident that we (BJP) will win 135 seats in the Karnataka Assembly election. Congress is a drowning ship, its leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra won only 2-3 seats in Uttar Pradesh even after campaigning for 4-5 months,” Yediyurappa stated.
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra who was in Bengaluru as a part of the Karnataka Assembly elections campaigns, on Monday stated that the grand previous occasion could be elected to energy because the individuals of the state need an “end to corruption”.
“We are very confident and hopeful. I am not a predictor of numbers; I can only see the response that we have gotten from the public. The people of Karnataka want an end to corruption,” Priyanka stated whereas speaking to the media after her mega roadshow within the metropolis. Priyanka held a roadshow in Bengaluru’s Vijayanagar on the final day of campaigning.
Row Over Bajrang Dal Ban
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However, the problem of Bajrang Dal, which was talked about within the Congress manifesto, took centre stage within the political campaigning. The Congress occasion final week in its manifesto for the May 10 elections stated it’ll take “decisive action” as per regulation together with banning organisations like Bajrang Dal, the Popular Front of India and others.
The Congress manifesto stated the occasion is dedicated to taking agency and decisive motion towards people and organisations spreading hatred amongst communities on grounds of caste and faith. PM Modi wrapped up his two-day mega roadshow on Sunday with a stretch of 10 km roadshow in Bengaluru.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out on the Opposition over the problem, saying, “The Congress has become a slave of appeasement and vote-bank politics.” Addressing an election rally in Tumakuru, Prime Minister Modi stated, “Congress has now started objecting to saying Jai Bajrangbali. Congress has become a slave to appeasement and vote-bank politics. Congress can never work for the welfare of Karnataka. It can never develop Karnataka.”
As a part of Congress campaigning for the elections, Rahul Gandhi, who’s on a go to to Karnataka to marketing campaign for his occasion, held an interplay with gig employees and supply companions of app-based supply providers in Bengaluru on Sunday. The former Lok Sabha MP interacted with supply employees at a resort in Bengaluru.
