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TopicKarnataka assembly election

Topic: Karnataka assembly election

If Karnataka votes in 2024 like it did in state polls, BJP-JD(S) can win 18 of 28 seats, Congress 10

Without alliance with JD(S), BJP would manage only 8 seats in Karnataka. ThePrint looks at vote share of parties in each assembly segment & extrapolates it for each Lok Sabha constituency.

Modi’s charisma & Hindutva not enough— Hindu Right press on Karnataka result

ThePrint’s round-up of how pro-Hindutva media covered and commented on news and topical issues over the last couple of weeks.

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah’s Cabinet gives ‘approval to Congress poll guarantees’ in 1st meeting

Siddaramaiah said assurances will be fulfilled irrespective of financial burden on state coffers. He also blamed previous BJP govt for bad finances of Karnataka and of the country.

First power, then pain: ‘Operation Lotus’ is boomeranging on BJP, and not just in Karnataka

BJP has often grabbed power by engineering defections from other parties, but side-effects include erosion of ideology, weakening morale, and corruption, party sources say.

SC collegium ‘rethinks’ resolution on elevation of lawyer who contested Karnataka polls

Nagendra Ramachandra Naik contested the election from Bhatkal and secured only 1,502 votes. His elevation has been recommended thrice by the SC collegium. 

‘Won’t backstab’: DK Shivakumar before flying to Delhi for talks over Karnataka CM post

The Karnataka Congress president will meet the party’s high command in Delhi ahead of the party’s announcement on the top post.

Behind Congress’s Karnataka win, state chief, ‘organisation man’ & now ‘Vokkaliga face’ Shivakumar

With his approach based on 3 pillars — mass outreach, visible leadership & enthusiastic cadre — D. K. Shivakumar had kept up pressure on the BJP government consistently.

‘Rivalry’ in Gowda family, desertions weaken JD(S), party loses out even in seats dominated by Vokkaligas

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.

Congress’ ‘love’ triumphed in Karnataka, Bajrang Bali’s ‘wrath’ falls on BJP

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Corruption’ tag, weak leadership, quota misfire — 5 reasons BJP lost South foothold Karnataka

Unlike other BJP-ruled states like Gujarat, Uttarakhand & UP, Karnataka was an exception as corruption became a major sticking point. Bommai govt faced strong anti-incumbency.

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SRK is more Johnny Depp than Depp

SRK's impromptu party looked refreshingly ‘normal’ and as cool as the Birthday Boy himself. King of Kool could be another tag for the man who once declared himself 'the last of the stars'.

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Launch of India’s heaviest comms satellite is a level up for its soaring military ambitions. Here’s how

ISRO’s LMV3 rocket set off the CMS-03 satellite from Sriharikota Sunday. It weighs 4,410 kg, will primarily serve Indian Navy and has a life of at least 15 years.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.