With Congress deliberating the choice of chief minister in Karnataka, DK Shivakumar on Monday said the party won 135 seats with him as state party unit chief and he did not want to disclose what happened in the last five years
As Congress is mulling over its chief ministerial choice after getting a thumping majority in Karnataka Assembly elections, party state president DK Shivakumar, an aspirant for the top post on Monday said that it is under his leadership that Congress got 135 seats in the state.
"In the upcoming assembly polls which will be held after five months, our organisation will contest the elections on 80 seats in the state. Whether the Congress party gives tickets or not, he will try to send youths to the state assembly and Lok Sabha to fight for the tribal people," Alawa s
BJP managed to win 66 seats. Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) bagged 19 seats. Independents have won two seats while Kalyana Rajya Pragathi Paksha and Sarvodaya Karnataka Paksha won one seat each.
According to the Election Commission of India, Congress won 135 seats pushing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) out of power in the only southern state it ruled and boosting its own prospects for the electoral battles ahead.
"This Mutt is a holy place for me. Swamiji has always guided me. Swamiji gave me complete guidance even when the Income Tax raids took place. I asked for 134 seats and I got more than that," said Karnataka Congress president DK Shivakumar.
Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Congress have been brought to 'zero', with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) government sweeping the Uttar Pradesh urban local body polls winning the Mayoral seats of all the 17 municipal corporations besides 90 pos
The Congress party has won the Kittur Karnataka region from BJP, securing 33 out of 50 seats while retaining the Kalyan Karnataka region with 26 out of 41 seats in the state assembly elections announced on Saturday.
In a major shot in the arm for Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's government, the Bharatiya Janata Party swept the Uttar Pradesh urban local body polls winning the Mayoral seats of all the 17 municipal corporations besides 90 posts of municipality chairman and over 600 wards.