The counting of votes will happen on Saturday.
Karnataka will see a triangular contest at this time for its 224 meeting seats. Whereas the BJP is hoping for one more straight time period, the Congress is banking on the state’s revolving door pattern. The JDS, which dominates over 61 seats, could play spoiler
Listed below are the highest 10 factors on this huge story:
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Within the run-up to the election, the ruling BJP – which is going through a number of corruption allegations — coated all its bases, together with tweaking the quota, which it hopes will deliver within the Vokkaliga and Scheduled Castes and Tribes votes.
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The social gathering, which already had the assist of Lingayats, additionally shored up the assist of the group, giving them a piece of the 4 p.c OBC (Different Backward Courses) votes for Muslims that was scrapped.
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A number of senior Lingayat leaders of the BJP – together with former Chief Minister Jagdish Shettar – have joined the Congress camp after being denied social gathering ticket. This has opened up the BJP to a chance of a division within the Lingayat vote, which might resolve the end result in 90 to 100 seats.
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The Congress, which discovered itself out of energy when the alliance authorities it ran with Janata Dal Secular chief HD Kumaraswamy collapsed, has stated it is not going to want a second tie-up.
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Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and the social gathering’s state unit chief DK Shivakumar – identified to be at loggerheads – have stored up a united entrance. However their rivalry over distribution of tickets gave a glimpse of the rift inside.
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Each events have run a high-profile marketing campaign. Whereas Prime Minister Narendra Modi held 19 public conferences and 6 roadshows, Congress’s Rahul Gandhi camped within the state for 12 days.
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The marketing campaign grew shriller with the Congress pledge in its manifesto to ban the right-wing group Bajrang Dal. The BJP retaliated and later flagged a Congress tweet attributing a touch upon “sovereignty” to the Election Fee.
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For the Janata Dal Secular of HD Kumaraswamy, it is a essential election, with social gathering patriarch HD Deve Gowda, who’s in his 90s, planning to hold up his electoral boots. The social gathering, which hoped to broaden its base past Hassan and Mandya, is now making an attempt to carry onto its conventional base within the Outdated Mysuru area.
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A household feud cropped up within the run-up to the election over the celebrated Hassan seat, the yard of the Gowda household. Bhavani Revanna, spouse of Mr Kumaraswamy’s brother HD Revanna, had requested for a ticket from the seat. Mr Kumaraswamy had refused and nominated a detailed aide, HP Swaroop. The scenario calmed down after Mr Deve Gowda campaigned from Hassan.
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The counting of votes will happen on Saturday. The bulk mark within the 224-member meeting is 113.
