Incumbent Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has conceded defeat within the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections
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As Congress emerged because the main social gathering cruising previous 120 seats by midday within the closely-watched Assembly elections, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai conceded defeat saying that his social gathering had not been in a position to make the mark and would conduct an in depth evaluation as soon as the total results have been in. However, the incumbent Chief Minister Basavaraj Mr. Bommai has been sustaining a powerful lead in his constituency Shiggaon by 53.05% votes, hoping to safe a fourth consecutive time period whereas his Congress rival Pathan Yasir Ahmed Khan was seen trailing.
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Here’s a take a look at how different Ministers within the BJP’s incumbent Karnataka Cabinet are faring within the polls with near 66% % of the votes having been counted at noon-
V. Somanna, Housing Minister
Constituency; Varuna
Karnataka Housing Minister V. Somanna
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M A Sriram
The Varuna constituency in Mysore district witnessed a key battle between BJP’s Housing Minister and Lingayat neighborhood chief V. Somanna, and Congress stalwart and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. The BJP Minister as per Election Commission (EC) developments at 12.40 pm has secured 26,049 votes and trailing behind Mr. Siddaramaiah, who received from the constituency in 2008 and 2013. In the 2018 Karnataka polls, the saffron social gathering’s Lingayat strongman Mr. Somanna had received the Govindarajanagar in Bengaluru, the place he has a foothold. Ahead of the polls, he had accused rival Mr. Siddaramaiah of neglecting the Varuna constituency, saying that he had taken up a number of developmental works together with opening of hospitals, and schools and offering consuming water in addition to guaranteeing cleanliness and peace in Govindarajanagar Assembly phase that he had represented.
B. Sriramulu, Transport Minister
Constituency: Ballari rural
Karnataka Transport Minister and Ballari in-charge B. Sriramulu
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SRIDHAR KAVALI
In the Ballari rural constituency, Transport and Scheduled Tribes Welfare Minister B. Sriramulu is heading in direction of a humiliating defeat. After the seventeenth spherical of counting, he was trailing with 72,866 votes. Congress candidate B. Nagendra was main with 1,01,718 votes – a formidable margin of 28,852 votes. Ahead of the polls he has stated that he often is the Chief Ministerial candidate sooner or later if the social gathering decides so, including that the period of demanding Deputy Chief Minister’s put up for himself had already handed. Ballari has been the stronghold of former BJP Minister and mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy, who’s Mr. Sriramulu mentor. Mr. Reddy, who has been concerned in a case associated to mining, has been barred by the Supreme Court from coming into Ballari and had launched his personal social gathering Kalyana Rajya Pragati Paksha (KRPP) final 12 months.
Munirathna, Planing and Horticulture Minister
Constituency: Rajarajeshwari
Karnataka Cabinet Ministet Munirathna
State Cabinet Minister Munirathna is trailing behind Congress’ candidate H. Kusuma in Rajarajeshwari Nagar by a margin of 9980. In the final two elections (2013 and 2018), the incumbent MLA and Minister within the State cupboard received as a candidate from the Congress. However, in 2019, Munirathna shifted his loyalty to BJP with 16 different MLAs of Congress and JD(S), ensuing within the fall of the H.D. Kumaraswamy-led JD(S) and Congress coalition authorities.
In 2020, the constituency went for byelections and Munirathna, who contested from the BJP ticket, defeated Kusuma H. from Congress with a margin of over 50,000 votes. Subsequently, in 2021 he turned a Minister within the cupboard of the Basavaraj Bommai authorities.
Munirathna, a movie producer-turned-politician, was embroiled in a number of controversies prior to now. In 2018, police filed an FIR in opposition to him and several other others following the seizures of 1000’s of voter IDs within the condominium.
V. Sunil Kumar, Energy and Culture Minister
Constituency: Karkala
V. Sunil Kumar, Minister and BJP candidate for Karkala Assembly Constituency.
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Minister for Energy, Kannada and Culture and the BJP candidate for Karkala Assembly constituency V. Sunil Kumar is main by a margin of 4,602 votes, whereas Congress candidate Udaya Shetty Muniyal is trailing. If Mr. Kumar wins, it could be his fifth time from Karkala Assembly constituency. He received from Karkala in 2004, 2013, and in 2018.
R. Ashoka, Revenue Minister
Constituency: Padmanabanagar, Kanakapura
Karnataka Minister for Revenue R. Ashoka
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HANDOUT E MAIL
BJP chief and Revenue Minister R. Ashoka contested from two constituencies- Padmanabanagar and Kanakapura. In Kanakapura, developments present that he has solely been in a position to safe about 10% of the vote as in opposition to Congress stalwart D.Okay. Shivkumar who’s at the moment the main candidate with of the vote. In Padmanabanagar, in the meantime, the BJP Minister is at the moment main by a margin of 46,718 votes as Congress’ V. Raghunatha Naidu trails. While the incumbent CM Basavaraj Bommai conceded defeat within the state right now, Mr. Ashoka had stated forward of the polls that the BJP would kind a authorities even when the consequence was a hung meeting.
