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Voters in three Assembly constituencies in Yadgir district have supported the Congress by electing Raja Venkatappa Naik in Shorapur, Sharanabasappa Darshanapur in Shahapur and Channareddy Patil Tunnur in Yadgir, who defeated Narasimha Nayak, Ameenaraddi Yalagi and Venkatareddy Mudnal, all from the BJP, respectively.

BJP Karnataka President Nalin Kumar Kateel has completed his three year term.

After the announcement of the Assembly election results, acting Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai held a discussion with the RSS leaders regarding party organisation in Bengaluru on Monday.

The now-scrapped Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, was meant to be a “temporary” provision since the beginning and the framers of the Constitution had put it there “intelligently”, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on May 15.

Experts and civic group activists attribute the low turnout (Bengaluru: 55%, as compared to 73.19% for entire Karnataka) to errors in voter rolls, like duplication, deletion, and mismatched entries, and voters being forced to go from one booth to another searching for their names in the electoral rolls.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday, launched a farm loan interest waiver scheme that he claimed would benefit over 11 lakh farmers in the State.

Nearly 30% of voters said unemployment was the biggest issue this election compared with just 3% in 2018

Many commentators and observers of Karnataka politics have pointed out that corruption became a crucial issue for the voters in the Assembly election.

Focusing on local issues and stitching together a broad social coalition that lent it huge support helped the party win a comfortable majority in the State