The Congress party has secured a victory in the Karnataka Assembly elections, with the latest trends showing it has won 100 out of the 224 assembly seats so far. As a result, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh has claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lost the elections, as the BJP’s campaign was a “referendum on the PM”. Ramesh also accused the PM of injecting divisiveness and polarising voters in the elections.
“As the results of the Karnataka elections are coming out, it is becoming clear that Congress has won and the prime minister has lost. BJP had made their election campaign about getting the support of the people for the PM and the state, but it has been clearly rejected,” says a translated version of Jairam Ramesh’s Hindi tweet.
The Congress party fought this election on local issues such as livelihood and food security, inflation, farmer crisis, power supply, unemployment, and corruption, the tweet added. The prime minister adopted a divisive strategy and attempted to polarise the voters. Karnataka has voted for an engine in Bangalore that will connect economic development with social harmony, Jairam Ramesh also said in the tweet.
He further added that his party had fought the Karnataka polls on local issues such as livelihood and food security, price rise, farmer distress, electricity supply, joblessness, and corruption.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra had a concrete impact in Karnataka, which was the uniting of the party, revitalisation of the party members, and the shaping of the narrative for the Karnataka elections, said the veteran Congress leader in a separate tweet. Through various conversations with the people of Karnataka during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul Gandhi discussed and finalised the guarantees and promises contained in their manifesto, he added.
According to exit polls, the election was predicted to be a hung assembly, with some showing Congress returning to power with a majority, and a few showing BJP ahead. However, as the counting progressed, Congress emerged victorious.
In the meantime, Mamata Banerjee has offered her congratulations to the people of Karnataka for choosing change through their mandate. The chief minister of West Bengal emphasised that the lesson to be learned is that no centralised attempt to dominate can suppress the natural impulses of the people. Banerjee went on to say that the results indicated people’s desire for diversity and rejection of oppressive tactics of authoritarian and majoritarian politics.
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