The BJP gave ground to the Congress in Karnataka, as the ruling party increased its number of Lok Sabha seats to nine on Tuesday, and results of elections held in 28 segments of the state were declared.
The BJP, which sought to capitalize on the Modi factor, won 17 seats, down from 25 in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, while its NDA partner JD(S) won two constituencies, according to Commission officials Electoral.
After scoring a resounding victory in the Assembly elections, which saw a triangular fight between the Congress, the BJP and the JD(S) in May last year, the ruling party was determined to put up a good show but failed to deliver. their expectations in the surveys. , in which the party hoped to win at least 15 seats.
The Congress had banked heavily on the five guarantee schemes it had launched in the state which it hoped would help reap rich electoral dividends. In the 2019 general elections, the grand old party had won just one seat out of a total of 28 in the state.
Karnataka is the most important state for the BJP in southern India, as it has only held power here in the past.
After the defeat in last year’s Assembly elections, the BJP had worked hard to improve its prospects in the Lok Sabha polls, taking advantage of the Modi factor and had set itself the ambitious task of repeating its 2019 Lok Sabha performance. , when he swept the polls.
Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing allegations of sexually abusing several women and also recording them, was defeated by Congressman Shreyas M Patel. He has already been suspended by the JD(S).
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s son-in-law Radhakrishna Doddamani registered a victory in Gulbarga, against BJP’s Umesh Jadhav, who won all three seats under Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and Bengaluru Rural limits.
Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar’s brother and MP DK Suresh was defeated by eminent cardiologist and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda’s son-in-law, Bengaluru Rural BJP’s Dr CN Manjunath. Interestingly, this was the only seat that the Congress won in 2019.
Suresh’s defeat is seen as a major setback for Shivakumar, who harbored prime ministerial ambitions.
Three former Chief Ministers, JD(S)’s HD Kumaraswamy, and Basavaraj Bommai and Jagadish Shettar (both of the BJP), won in their Lok Sabha segments from Mandya, Haveri and Belgaum, respectively.
Union ministers Pralhad Joshi and Shobha Karandlaje (BJP) scored victories in the Dharwad and Bengaluru North Lok Sabha segments respectively, according to the Election Commission, while another Union minister Bhagwanth Khuba was defeated in Bidar by Karnataka Minister Eshwar Khandre’s son Sagar Khandre.
Also among those who won were former Mysuru royal family scion Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar of the BJP in Mysore, party veteran BS Yediyurappa’s son BY Raghavendra in Shimoga, and saffron Party youth wing chief , Tejasvi Surya (Bangalore South).
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah admitted that the Congress’ performance was not as expected as it expected to win 15-20 seats, but the calculations went wrong.
“However, in 2019 we had won only one seat, but this time we got nine. Our vote share this time in Karnataka is 45.34 per cent, BJP’s vote share is 46.04 per cent, which It means the difference is less than one percent.” he added she.
Further, Siddaramaiah said that in 2019, BJP’s vote share was 51.38 per cent and Congress’s share was 31.88 per cent.
In the 2019 general elections, the saffron party won 25 seats and also managed to secure victory for an independent party backed by it. Many BJP leaders had even repeatedly claimed that the party would win all 28 seats this time.
For JD(S), this Lok Sabha elections was considered crucial, after it recorded its worst performance in over two decades in the 2023 Assembly elections in Karnataka, winning just 19 seats.
Thus, in what is largely considered an “alliance of coercion”, the JD(S), hoping to improve its prospects, had forged an alliance with the BJP in the context of the alleged “attack” by the ruling Congress and his attempts to weaken the party by courting its leaders and legislators.
According to leaders of both the parties, coordination between their workers seems to have worked in their favor as the transfer of votes took place between them in the Old Mysuru region.
It was something of a role reversal for the JD(S) led by former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda in this election compared to 2019 as the party was running a coalition government with the Congress then and had fought together in the elections. He then emerged victorious in one electoral district: Hassan.
The Congress’s defeat in Mysore is considered a major setback for Siddaramaiah as it is his home district and he had invested a lot of time and energy in camping, strategizing and campaigning.
Among those who also lost were expelled BJP leader KS Eshwarappa and film star Shivrajkumar’s wife Geetha Shivrajkumar of the Congress in Shimoga, who had contested against Yediyurappa’s son Raghavendra.
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