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Kamal’, is saying that the BJP will get 120 to 125 seats in the assembly elections and will return to power.
Asserting that the party would prove the exit polls wrong, the Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare said the “primary reports” received after the elections on Wednesday suggested that his party was getting an absolute majority.
The term ‘Operation Lotus’ was coined several years ago by the opposition Congress and JD(S) in the state, allegedly in response to an earlier attempt by the BJP to “poach opposition MLAs” when it was trying to secure a majority on its own. I had failed.
The predictions were also dismissed by other BJP leaders, including Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who was confident that the Bharatiya Janata Party would touch the majority mark in the state. The counting of votes will take place on May 13.
The Election Commission (EC) has also rejected the Congress’s claim that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) used in the May 10 Karnataka Assembly polls were first deployed in South Africa and asked the party to “rumour mongers”. To bring to justice those who targeted this with false information.
In a letter addressed to AICC in-charge of Karnataka Randeep Singh Surjewala, the Election Commission said it had used new EVMs manufactured by Electronics Corporation of India Limited for the elections in the southern state.
The Congress had written to the poll panel on May 8, seeking clarification raising concerns over the deployment of EVMs already deployed in South Africa in the Karnataka election without going through the process of re-evaluation and re-verification.
Citing records, the poll panel said the Congress had specific knowledge that only new ECIL-manufactured EVMs would be used in Karnataka. It said Congress representatives participated in each and every stage of EVM movement and commissioning for the Karnataka elections.
The poll panel insisted that it never sent EVMs to South Africa. It also said that whether EVMs are not used in elections in that country can be easily verified through the website of the Electoral Commission of South Africa.
With the Narendra Modi-led BJP trying to break a 38-year-old electoral stranglehold where the state has never voted a party to power since 1985, the Congress is hoping for a morale-boosting victory So that gives him much-needed momentum to establish himself as the main opposition player in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
It also remains to be seen whether in the event of a fractured mandate, the Janata Dal (Secular) led by former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda will emerge as the “kingmaker” or “king” holding the key to government formation. have done in the past.