West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that Karnataka assembly election results would have been very different, had the Congress formed an alliance with the JD (S) before the poll. (THE VOTE-SHARE GAME)
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that Karnataka assembly election results would have been very different, had the Congress formed an alliance with the JD (S) before the poll. (THE VOTE-SHARE GAME)
"If Congress had gone into an alliance with the JD(S), the result would have been different. Very different," Mamata Banerjee said in a tweet.
The chief minister also congratulated to the winners and said, "For those who lost, fight back."
According to the latest trends, the BJP is leading in 113 constituencies, the number required for a simple majority in the Assembly. The Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) are leading in 65 and 38 seats respectively.
Senior Congress leader DK Shivakumar conceded defeat and said Rahul Gandhi did his best. "He came here, spent a lot of time. Ultimately the local leaders have to encash it, but some of us have failed it."
In the outgoing Assembly, the Congress had 122 seats, BJP and JD(S) 40 each, and smaller parties and independents 22 seats.
Among the chief ministerial candidates of the three parties, BJP's Yeddyurappa is leading in Shikaripura by 21,140 votes, while HD Kumaraswamy of JD(S) is leading by a margin of 13,761 in Ramanagara and 12,347 in Channapatna.
Meanwhile, union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad also took a swipe at Congress president Rahul Gandhi, saying somebody was dreaming of becoming prime minister, a reference to Gandhi's statement during the Karnataka poll campaign that he was ready for the job if his party emerged victorious in the next Lok Sabha elections.
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