The Congress gained the Karnataka meeting election 2023
Bengaluru:
The Congress celebration has requested its nationwide chief Mallikarjun Kharge to resolve who would be the new Chief Minister of Karnataka. Each MLA will meet the Congress’s crew of observers and inform them their alternative. The brand new Karnataka Chief Minister and the cupboard will take oath on Thursday, sources have mentioned.
The Congress requested Mr Kharge to take a choice on the Chief Minister’s appointment after a gathering of its Karnataka MLAs at present at a five-star lodge in Bengaluru.
Congress leaders DK Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah have expressed curiosity within the high submit, elevating issues over a stand-off if the matter isn’t resolved.
The supporters of each the Congress leaders slogans outdoors the Bengaluru lodge the place the assembly came about.
Congress Basic Secretaries Sushil Kumar Shinde, Deepak Babaria and Jitendra Singh Alwar have been the observers on the Karnataka Congress Legislature Social gathering 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 information of the matter mentioned.
Siddaramaiah’s supporters have put up a poster outdoors his dwelling in Bengaluru, referring to him as “the following Chief Minister of Karnataka”.
Posters additionally got here up outdoors 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 dimensions of the Congress win is a report by way of each seats and vote share in over 30 years. The celebration 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.
