When Karnataka Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar, who had just got out on bail in a money laundering case, reached the party headquarters in Delhi on October 24, he got a hero’s welcome. The mood was already upbeat on account of the assembly election results in Maharashtra and Haryana. With Shivakumar by his side, K.C. Venugopal, general secretary in charge of party affairs in Karnataka, was quick to link the poll outcome with the BJP’s vindictiveness towards leaders of rival parties. “The way the BJP government tried to crush the opposition voice is being questioned by the people of Haryana and Maharashtra,” said Venugopal.
The prediction that the BJP would win the two states hands down, on the lines of what happened in the Lok Sabha elections a few months ago, was proved grossly incorrect. While the BJP-Shiv Sena combine did win Maharashtra, there was a dip in its numbers, and the BJP failed to reach the majority mark in Haryana.
In Maharashtra, the BJP-Sena combine had a 50.88 per cent vote share in the Lok Sabha elections, winning 41 of 48 seats. It was ahead in 224 of 288 assembly seats. The number came down to 154 this time. In Haryana, the BJP had got a mammoth 58.2 per cent vote share in the Lok Sabha elections, winning all 10 seats. It was ahead in 79 assembly constituencies. This time it was restricted to 40, five short of the halfway mark.
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