Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Saturday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the mandate for the grand old party in the Karnataka Assembly elections and said that the Prime Minister's face value had done no good for the BJP in the state.
Taking responsibility for the debacle as trends showed Bharatiya Janata Party losing the southern state, Karnataka's outgoing Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday said that there are multiple reasons for the defeat and the party will find out all of them.
BJP karnataka Party state president Nalin Kumar Kateel said, "I take responsibility for the defeat as the state president. I will work responsibly as a good opposition party in the state."
"As the results firm up in Karnataka it is now certain that the Congress has won and the PM has lost. The BJP had made its election campaign a referendum on the PM and on the state getting his 'ashirwaad'. That has been decisively rejected!", Jairam Ramesh tweeted.
Assam-based All political party All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) has said the Karnataka assembly polls result, where Congress has clearly emerged victories in the latest vote counting trends, will become a turning point for the party and other opposition parties ahead of crucial
As the counting of votes is underway on Saturday for the Karnataka Assembly elections, Congress has won 79 seats while leading in 57 constituencies, according to the Election Commission (EC) data.
Jubilant Congress workers across the country started celebrating as the grand old party edged towards victory in the Karnataka Assembly elections on Saturday.
Speaking to the reporters, Baghel said "First we won Himachal Pradesh and then we won Karnataka...They used to speak of 'Congress mukt-Bharat' but now South India is 'BJP-mukt'."
As the grand old party surged ahead on Saturday according to leads of the Karnataka assembly elections, Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) leader BS Yediyurappa said victory and defeat are not new for the party and it will introspect the setback.