Karnataka Elections 2018 Voting: 70% voter turnout recorded, says Election Commission
May 12, 2018 21:02 IST70% voter turnout was recorded in the politically-crucial Karnataka Assembly elections, for which the polling ended at 6 pm today.
70% voter turnout was recorded in the politically-crucial Karnataka Assembly elections, for which the polling ended at 6 pm today.
Karnataka Assembly Elections 2018: The ruling Congress and the BJP are the main contenders for power, while former prime minister H D Deve Gowda's JD(S) is likely to play the kingmaker.
Karnataka Assembly Elections 2018 Voting Live: Polling for the Karnataka assembly elections commenced at 7 am and continue till 6 pm in the evening.
The decision comes days after nearly 10,000 voter identity cards were recovered from a flat in the constituency, leading to a slugfest between the BJP and the Congress.
If one compares the crowds at the rallies of BJP and Congress, the former seems to be ahead, but nobody can predict with certainty, which way the wind will blow.
No party in Karnataka has won a second successive term in office since 1985 when the Janata Dal under Ramakrishna Hegde had retained power.
The full-throated campaigning for the high-octane Assembly elections in Karnataka concluded on Thursday evening, with both the Congress and BJP leaving no stone unturned to voters in their favour in both rural and urban areas.
A wide range of issues, from corruption to communalism, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s Rs 70 lakh Hublot watch to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origin, were raised in the electoral potboiler.
Rejecting speculations over the emergence of a hung Assembly after May 12 elections, Amit Shah said that the BJP will form next government on its own and there was no question of either taking or giving support to anybody.
Addressing a press conference on the last day of the campaign for Karnataka Assembly elections, Gandhi rejected BJP's poll strategy of personal allegations and claimed that Congress will retain power in the state 'hands down'.
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In the last leg of Karnataka Assembly Elections 2018 today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi worked to motivate the party workers by engaging them in live interaction through Narendra Modi app.
Karnataka Elections 2018: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi made tall allegations against PM Modi in a press conference in poll-bound Karnataka's Bengaluru on Thursday.
During the interaction, PM Modi encouraged the party workers to encourage voters to practice their right on May 12 in maximum numbers.
On the last day of campaigning, both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress are expected to go full throttle with extensive electioneering powered by a war of words.
"No ways, there will not be a hung assembly in Karnataka," Shah said, adding, "we will win with comfortable majority and form government."
IndiaTV Final Opinion Poll gives Congress 96 seats, BJP 85 and JDS+ 38, which is likely to play the kingmaker on the D-Day. With no party touching the magic mark in the opinion poll, Karnataka is likely to throw a hung assembly.
Taking his attack on the Gandhi family a notch further with barely a day left for the campaign to end, Modi said, “He (Rahul Gandhi) feels that the prime minister’s chair is reserved for one family and no one can sit on it. He feels it is an ancestral right (paitruk hak).”
Rahul Gandhi drew a comparison between the Siddaramaiah government and the previous BJP regime (2008-13) in Karnataka, with the help of figures to show that his party’s rule was better on all counts.
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