In Karnataka the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading in 17 of the 28 seats, showing a loss of ground in the southern state, where it won 25 of 28 constituencies in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
According to the Election Commission of India, the Congress, which won only one seat in 2019, is leading in nine seats. Janata Dal (Secular), BJP’s alliance partner, is leading in two of three seats it’s contesting.
BJP leader Basavaraj Bommai said, ‘In Karnataka, we have received a setback, especially in Kalyana-Karnataka region. We will review the results in the coming days. We were expecting 4-5 seats more but we are losing them by thin margins’.
In 2019, the BJP’s win in Karnataka lent to its national tally of 303 wins across Bharat. As per political analysts and observers, the defeat in Karnataka will bring down its national tally as the party did not foresee any major gain in other southern states.
Prajwal Revanna, the 33-year-old grandson of former PM H.D. Deve Gowda and the BJP-JD(S) alliance candidate from Hassan, is trailing by 43,738 votes from Congress’s Shreyas M. Patel.
The former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, is leading by 41,998 votes from the Haveri seat, where he replaced Shivakumar Udasi as the BJP candidate.
Former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, is leading by 1,34,100 votes from Belgaum, a border district nearly 500 km from Bengaluru.
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