Following its massive win in the Lok Sabha polls, the BJP eyes returning to power in Karnataka by toppling the coalition government
A saffron surge in Karnataka has demolished the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition in the Lok Sabha polls. The BJP won by a landslide, wresting 25 of 28 seats, bettering its 2014 tally by eight seats. The Congress and the JD(S) won just one seat each. Following the debacle, the future of the one-year-old coalition government looks bleak.
An upbeat BJP, which rode the Modi wave, had its strategy in place as it successfully tapped into the discord between the coalition partners and grabbed more than 50 per cent of the total votes polled. While all sitting BJP MPs, including Union ministers Ramesh Jigajinagi, Anant Kumar Hegde and D.V. Sadananda Gowda retained their seats, coalition stalwarts like Mallikarjun Kharge, Veerappa Moily and K.H. Muniyappa lost by huge margins. Even former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda tasted defeat. In Mandya, Nikhil Kumaraswamy, son of Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, lost to independent candidate Sumalatha Ambareesh, who allegedly had the tacit support of rebel Congress leaders.
This story is from the June 02, 2019 edition of THE WEEK.
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