The Congress gained the Karnataka meeting election 2023
Bengaluru:
The Congress social gathering has requested its nationwide chief Mallikarjun Kharge to determine who would be the new Chief Minister of Karnataka. Each MLA met the Congress’s staff of observers and advised them their alternative by vote, earlier than leaving a five-star lodge in Bengaluru the place the Congress held a gathering of all MLAs.
The brand new Karnataka Chief Minister and the cupboard will take oath on Thursday, sources have stated.
The Congress requested Mr Kharge to take a choice on the Chief Minister’s appointment after the assembly of its Karnataka MLAs on the Bengaluru lodge ended this night.
Congress leaders DK Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah have expressed curiosity within the high submit, elevating issues over a stand-off if the matter will not be resolved.
The supporters of each the Congress leaders slogans exterior the Bengaluru lodge the place the assembly passed off.
Congress Common Secretaries Sushil Kumar Shinde, Deepak Babaria and Jitendra Singh Alwar have been the observers on the Karnataka Congress Legislature Occasion assembly.
The Gandhis and Mr Kharge will attend the oath-taking occasion on Thursday. The Congress has despatched invites to all “like-minded” events to attend it. The ultimate contours of the Karnataka cupboard will take form in a day or two, individuals with direct data of the matter stated.
With @dkshivakumar ji and @siddaramaiah ji on the dinner submit the CLP assembly.
Congress is UNITED.
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— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) Could 14, 2023
Siddaramaiah’s supporters have put up a poster exterior his dwelling in Bengaluru, referring to him as “the subsequent Chief Minister of Karnataka”.
Posters additionally got here up exterior Mr Shivakumar’s home, wishing “birthday greetings” to “the brand new Chief Minister of Karnataka”. His birthday is tomorrow.
The BJP has been voted out of energy in Karnataka, its solely bastion within the south till yesterday, when the Congress took 135 seats within the 224-member home.
The BJP gained solely 66 seats, down from 104 within the 2018 state election. It didn’t win a single seat reserved for Scheduled Tribes (ST) class. Karnataka has 51 reserved constituencies, out of which 36 are for Scheduled Castes (SC) candidates and 15 for ST candidates.
The size of the Congress win is a file when it comes to each seats and vote share in over 30 years. The social gathering gained 135 seats – 55 greater than in 2018 – with a vote share of 42.88 per cent. The closest the Congress got here to this rating was in 1999 when it gained 132 seats and had a vote share of 40.84 per cent. In 1989, it gained 178 seats with a vote share of 43.76 per cent.