PM Modi's hateful, divisive campaign didn't work: Congress
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The counting of votes for the Karnataka Election results 2023 started at 8 am. According to the reports so far, Congress maintains a lead on over 100 seats, 110 constituencies as per the Election Commission.
The party has claimed that it will win with a comfortable majority. If Congress maintains the leads on over 113 seats, it will be the next party to form the government, with no support.
"We will form the govt with a heavy majority, there's no doubt about it. Negative, divisive campaign of the PM did not work", Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said.
Mallikarjun Kharge's son Priyank Kharge is leading from Chittapur assembly seat while Laxman Savadi who had switched from the BJP to Congress, is also leading in the Athani Assembly constituency by 5374 votes.
The Congress party workers have started celebrating in Delhi as the party maintains lead. The party has also called a legislators' party meet at 12 noon tomorrow. It has asked all MLAs to reach Bangalore tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the BJP, as per the Election Commission data, is way far behind the Congress. The BJP was earlier leading in 88 seats and the Congress followed closely with 80 seats, both parties in a tight competition in the first big election of the year.
Karnataka voted in a single phase on Wednesday and recorded a 73.19 per cent voter turnout according to reports.
While the Chikkaballapura district recorded the highest voting percentage with 85.56 percent, state capital Bengaluru's southern division recorded the lowest of 52.33 percent.
