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The Hindu Bureau

BJP to look into reasons for defeat; flags Congress guarantees, changed caste equations

Shocked by the miserable defeat in the Karnataka Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party is set to hold State-level and Assembly constituency-level meetings of its candidates and leaders to decipher the reasons for its loss.

BJP State president Nalin Kumar Kateel told media persons in Bengaluru on Sunday that the meeting would be held within a few days and appealed to party workers to analyse the reasons for the debacle and also prepare for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Meanwhile, an informal meeting of party leaders and a few MLAs-elect was held in Bengaluru on Sunday. According to sources, the opinion expressed was that the manner in which the Congress “guarantees” (prominent poll promises) were reached to people was one of the main reasons for the BJP’s defeat, apart from the wave of anti-incumbency.

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