While the party has won 19 seats in the 224-member Karnataka assembly, its tally in 11 Vokkaliga-dominated districts of south Karnataka, a traditional JD(S) support base, is just 15 of 73 seats.
Bangarappa’s sons Kumar and Madhu were pitted against one another from Sorab, with latter winning with 98,912 votes. In Holenarasipur, Deve Gowda's son Revanna won with 88,103 votes.
Special arrangements are being made to shift MLAs to remote areas in Bengaluru and observers have been appointed to do this exercise, party sources said.
Karnataka Election Results 2023 highlights: Shivakumar says had 'assured high command will deliver Karnataka'. Bommai tells reporters BJP will 'take results in its stride'.
Two of ten exit polls predict BJP win & five, which say Congress will emerge as single largest party, hint at possibility of Karnataka heading towards hung assembly.
In an interview, former CM Kumaraswamy also asserts that he has no regrets about sharing power with BJP in 2006, and that both Congress & BJP are JD(S)'s rivals in Karnataka.
While there has been resentment over ticket distribution, sitting MLA Eshwarappa, who opted out of race last week, says party has to ensure candidate Channabasappa’s win by big margin.
Karnataka is broadly divided into Kittur-Karnataka and Kalyana-Karnataka, coastal and southern Karnataka. However, there are other sub-classifications.
Islamabad-based think-tank PICSS's new report says Pakistan saw 'pronounced escalation' in violence last year, with 3,413 conflict-related deaths compared to 1,950 in previous year.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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