Congress credits Karnataka elections victory to Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra

With Congress all set to assume power in politicallycrucial Karnataka the party on Saturday attributed the victory to Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul GandhiCongress won an absolute majority in Karnataka on Saturday with the party crossing the halfway mark of 113 seats in the 224member assemblyAccording to the latest trends of the Election Commission of India Congress has won 126 seats and is leading in 10 more seats Bharatiya Janata Party BJP has won 60 seats and is leading on five othersJanata DalSecular JDS has won 19 seats Independents have won two seats while Kalyana Rajya Pragathi Paksha and Sarvodaya Karnataka Paksha have won one seat eachThe Congress maintained a lead from the morning when counting began for the assembly seats in the fiercely contested electionCongress general secretary incharge Communications Jairam Ramesh said the result is a direct impact of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Karnataka the intangible impact was unifying the party revitalizing the cadre and shaping the narrative for the Karnataka electionsWhile this is the direct impact of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Karnataka the intangible impact was uniting the party reviving the cadre and shaping the narrative for the Karnataka elections It was during the Bharat Jodo Yatra from the many conversations Rahul Gandhi had with the people of Karnataka that the guarantees and the promises in our manifesto were discussed and finalised tweeted Jairam RameshHe also said that people rejected BJP in KarnatakaAlso Read Karnataka results wont have impact in Maharashtra Devendra FadnavisThe whole election campaign was about the issues of Karnataka We did not make it a national election we made this election for Vidhan Sabha Congress win is PM Modis decisive defeat This is because except for PM Modi there was no other face The issues we raised were related to the state But BJP made the election campaign like a referendum for PM Modi JP Nadda said that if you give a vote to Congress PM Modis blessings will not be with you The campaigning by PM Modi was totally rejected by the people of Karnataka Jairam Ramesh told ANIThe Congress put up a table comparing the partys performance in the 20 assembly constituencies covered during the Bharat Jodo YatraThe list showed that the Congress which had won 5 of these 20 seats in the 2018 Karnataka assembly elections took a massive lead and led in 15 seats till 4 pm The BJP which had won nine out of 20 seats last in the last elections was ahead in two JDS which bagged six seats in 2018 was leading in threeRahul Gandhiled Bharat Jodo Yatra entered Karnataka on September 30 last year The yatra covered 511 km in the state in over 20 daysThe Bharat Jodo Yatra which started in Kanyakumari on September 7 last year concluded on January 30 in Srinagar after covering 3970 km 12 states and two Union territoriesKarnataka went to the polls on May 10 for the 224member state assembly and saw a record polling of 7268 per cent A party needs 113 seats to get the majorityThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever