Lok Sabha elections 2024: Congress expected to gain BIG in Karnataka, worry for BJP, reveals survey
Karnataka, BJP won 25, while Congress and JD(S) got 1 each. One seat went to Independent candidate Sumalatha, who aligned with the BJP-led NDA.
Karnataka was the only state in South India, where BJP dominated during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The survey findings came on the day when Congress announced its first list of 39 candidates including seven from Karnataka.
The grand old party is fielding HR Algur from Bijapur (SC), Anandaswamy Gaddadevara Math from Haveri, SP Muddahanumegowda from Tumkur, Venkataramegowda from Mandya, DK Suresh from Bangalore Rural, Geetha Shivarajkumar from Shimoga and Shreyas Patel from Hassan. The party sources have informed that most of the sitting ministers in the Karnataka cabinet are not keen to fight Lok Sabha elections 2024.
Congress is planning to field ministers, Dinesh Gundu Rao, B Nagendra, etc. in the general elections, but the reports claimed that they are not interested in going to Delhi.
Congress is trying to replicate its Assembly election caste equation in the Lok Sabha elections and that mathematics will require the support of some influential MLAs in Karnataka, a party source said. Milestone Alert!
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