According to Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh, the Karnataka Assembly election results confirmed that the Congress had won and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had lost.
With early voting trends indicating that the Congress was on track to win, Ramesh declared that Karnataka had rejected the BJP’s campaign as “a referendum on the PM.”
“As the results firm up in Karnataka it is now certain that the Congress has won and the PM has lost. The BJP had made its election campaign a referendum on the PM and on the state getting his ‘ashirwaad’. That has been decisively rejected!”, Jairam Ramesh tweeted.
According to the Congress leader, his party campaigned on local issues such as livelihood and food security, price increases, farmer distress, electricity supply, joblessness, and corruption in Karnataka.
He accused Prime Minister Modi of instilling division and polarising voters in the elections.
“The PM injected divisiveness and attempted polarisation. The vote in Karnataka is for an engine in Bengaluru that will combine economic growth with social harmony,” Jairam Ramesh tweeted.
