{"id":2594,"date":"2023-05-13T17:59:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T16:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/for-congress-in-karnataka-a-record-victory-in-nearly-40-years\/%e0%a4%8f%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%82%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%b5\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T17:59:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T16:59:27","slug":"for-congress-in-karnataka-a-record-victory-in-nearly-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/?p=2594","title":{"rendered":"For Congress In Karnataka, A Record Victory In Nearly 40 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"For Congress In Karnataka, A Record Victory In Nearly 40 Years\" alt=\"For Congress In Karnataka, A Record Victory In Nearly 40 Years\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-05\/q0gnlk3c_siddaramaiah-dk-shivakumar-siddaramaiah-ani_625x300_13_May_23.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Congress&#8217;s former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had said the party was expecting 120-plus seats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">New Delhi: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The scale of Congress victory in the Karnataka assembly elections is a record in terms of both seats and vote share in over 30 years. The party has won 137 seats &#8212; 57 more than 2018 &#8212; with a vote share of 42.9 per cent. The closest the Congress came to this score was in 1999, when it won 132 seats and had a vote share of 40.84 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>In 1989, it won 178 seats with a vote share of 43.76 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP has won 65 seats with a 36 per cent vote share, HD Kumaraswamy&#8217;s Janata Dal Secular won 19 seats with a vote share of 13.3 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Congress&#8217;s former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had said the party was expecting 120-plus seats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This victory belongs to the people of the state. They decided and chose. That is why we got 136 seats &#8211; huge after 36 years&#8230; It is a big victory&#8230; We will respect the mandate and uphold people&#8217;s belief in us. We will implement all the welfare schemes we have announced in our manifesto,&#8221; said party chief Mallikarjun Kharge, who is also one of the tallest leaders of Karnataka.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Karnataka has given a new mantra to save democracy. It is a pathway to save democracy and Constitution across India. Prime Minister said &#8216;Congress Mukt Bharat&#8217; but the people of Karnataka ensured that &#8216;BJP Mukt South India&#8217;,&#8221; said senior Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala, who has been in charge of the party in the state for nearly two years.<\/p>\n<p>What worked well for the Congress was its hyper-local campaign when the BJP was using a national template for the state election, pitching it as a &#8220;Narendra Modi versus Rahul Gandhi&#8221; contest.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress has attributed the victory to Mr Gandhi&#8217;s &#8220;Bharat Jodo Yatra&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kharge said, &#8220;We have won almost 99 per cent of the seats in the route in which Rahul Gandhi walked (for Bharat Jodo Yatra)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The victory has come at a time when the Congress is seeking momentum ahead of next year&#8217;s general elections. A string of state polls are also due later this year, including in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Telangana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/for-congress-in-karnataka-a-record-victory-in-nearly-40-years-4032317\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Congress&#8217;s former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had said the party was expecting 120-plus seats. New Delhi: The scale of Congress victory in the Karnataka assembly elections is a record in terms of both seats and vote share in over 30 years. The party has won 137 seats &#8212; 57 more than 2018 &#8212; with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}