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Explained | Urban apathy or out-of-sync voter lists responsible for low turnout in Bengaluru?

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.

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Interest waiver scheme for 11 lakh farmers launched in Madhya Pradesh

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.

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2023 Karnataka Assembly elections | BJP’s failure to tackle unemployment, poverty hit it hard

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

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2023 Karnataka Assembly elections | Issue of corruption resonated with voters ahead of election day

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

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2023 Karnataka Assembly elections | How the Congress won an absolute majority

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

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Lessons in a loss: On the 2023 Karnataka Assembly election result

Between the failed experiment of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the successful one of the Congress, Karnataka voters have imparted important lessons

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Methodology of CSDS-Lokniti Karnataka post-poll survey

Though the sample is relatively small, the total number of voters interviewed represent the social reality of the voters of Karnataka

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Karnataka election results | Eight seats were decided by wafer-thin margins of less than 1,000 votes

Providing a nail-biting finish to the high-pitched Karnataka Assembly elections, Jayanagar constituency, where 16 votes separated the winner and the loser, became a talking point. As many as eight seats were decided by wafer-thin margins of less than 1,000 votes with the Congress and the BJP having five and three…

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Intense lobbying for Chief Minister’s post in Congress with caste factors coming into play

The run-up to the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting on Sunday evening was marked by intense lobbying by the former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president D.K. Shivakumar in a bid to be chosen as Chief Minister of the State. The two leaders had put up…

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Karnataka elections: Kerala rejoicing at the victory of three Malayalis

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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.

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With Bommai and PTR out, GST Council needs to rejig GoMs

The change of guard after the Assembly election in Karnataka and the Ministerial council shuffle in Tamil Nadu has triggered the need for the GST Council to reconstitute at least three Ministerial panels

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Three first-time MLAs enter Assembly from Yadgir and Raichur districts

The people’s mandate has gone mostly in favour of the Congress in Yadgir and Raichur districts. The party has succeeded in three seats out of four Assembly constituencies in Yadgir district, while it has won four seats out of the seven in Raichur district. Thus, it has bagged seven of the…

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Minority representation has remained low in most Assemblies

The representation of Muslims in the Karnataka Assembly has now marginally increased in this election compared to the last to nine from seven in the last Assembly. All of them are from the Congress. It was 11 in 2013. The JD(S) said 23 of its 211 candidates were Muslims, but…

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Andhra Pradesh: TDP gearing up to organise Mini Mahanadu in Srikakulam on May 17

In the 2019 general elections, the TDP had won only three of the 10 Assembly seats in undivided Srikakulam district. It had also won the Srikakulam Lok Sabha seat, thanks to the cross-voting in favour of party contestant Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu

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BJP should be taught Karnataka lesson in Madhya Pradesh, says Digvijaya Singh

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on said that the BJP should be taught the Karnataka lesson in Madhya Pradesh where the Assembly polls are due by the year-end.

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Karnataka election results 2023 | Everyone who served as Speakers of Assembly lost elections

Legislative Assembly Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri and three former speakers, who were members of the outgoing members of the Assembly, were defeated in the Karnataka Assembly elections 2023.

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‘Modi wave is over’, says Sanjay Raut after Congress’ big win in Karnataka elections

A day after Congress’ big win in the Karnataka Assembly elections, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on May 14 hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claiming that the “Modi wave” is over in the country.

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'Who will be CM?': Newly-elected Congress MLAs to meet in Bengaluru on Sunday evening

The newly-elected Congress MLAs in Karnataka are meeting here on Sunday evening to discuss government formation with leaders eliciting their views on the Chief Ministerial candidate. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Karnataka results set to shift focus of Pilot’s yatra to Rajasthan’s electoral battle

“The people in Karnataka were fed up with unlimited and unbridled corruption of the BJP government,” he said.

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Karnataka Assembly to see several father-son, father-daughter pairs and relatives this time

This time, the people of Karnataka have elected more than one member of a family to the Assembly. The Assembly will see several pairs of father-son, father-daughters on the floor of the House

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Karnataka elections: Congress corners BJP on party president Kharge’s home turf

In a major setback to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Kalaburagi district, the Opposition Congress successfully won seven out of nine Assembly seats, and the BJP slipped from the five seats it won in the last elections to two this election

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Congress surge topples BJP in Karnataka

Karnataka voters have decimated the incumbent BJP and given the Congress an unambiguous mandate, with 136 seats in the 224-member Legislative Assembly.

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Karnataka elections: Congress wins majority of seats in Belagavi district

In Belagavi, the Congress bagged 11 of the 18 seats. The second biggest district after Bengaluru, had 13 BJP MLAs and five Congress members in the outgoing Assembly

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Karnataka elections: BJP wrests one seat each from Congress and JD(S) in Bidar

Results in Bidar brought some solace for the Bharatiya Janata Party as it wrested one seat each from the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular)

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