Because the grand outdated celebration holds its Kanyakumari-to-Kashmir yatra to revive its grassroots join, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) chief DK Shivakumar on Sunday mentioned that he was assured in regards to the Congress profitable 150 seats within the upcoming meeting elections within the state. He additionally mentioned that they’ll obtain the quantity with none alliance. The state meeting has 224 seats.
Speaking to reporters at Ballari, DK Shivakumar mentioned, “After seeing the large response to Bharat Jodo Yatra in Karnataka, I’m positive that we’ll win in 150 meeting seats alone and kind the federal government with none help.”
“This time, the folks will give a transparent mandate and the Congress authorities goes to come back again to energy in 2023,” he was quoted as saying by information company ANI.
By Saturday, the Bharat Jodo Yatra, which is being led by Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, coated 1,000 km. He was within the Ballari district of the state on Saturday. Throughout his footmarch, Rahul Gandhi has known as out the ruling authorities a number of instances.
“The BJP authorities in Karnataka is probably the most corrupt authorities within the nation. The federal government and their leaders cost 40% for each authorities approval and the folks of Karnataka are going to show them a lesson in an upcoming election,” he mentioned in one of many addresses.
He additionally made clear that there is no such thing as a rift contained in the Congress celebration within the state. When requested in regards to the celebration’s chief ministerial candidate, Gandhi mentioned, “We now have an expectational crew in Karnataka and at the moment our focus is barely to win folks’s mandate within the state in an upcoming election. After profitable, we are going to determine about chief ministerial candidate based mostly on a course of that’s carried out in Congress celebration”
Within the 2018 meeting elections in Karnataka, the Congress gained 80 seats out of 222 seats and shaped the federal government with the alliance of Janata Dal (Secular) celebration which gained 37 seats. Nevertheless, in 2019 BJP shaped the federal government within the state after the Congress-JDS coalition misplaced the belief vote in the home.
A day earlier than the celebration gears up to decide on its subsequent chief between two contenders – Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge – on Monday, Kharge advised ANI: “In Karnataka, 100% our celebration will come again to energy. Our leaders are working laborious. They (BJP-RSS) are misusing autonomous our bodies and the federal government equipment right here.”
(With inputs from ANI)