NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said that Karnataka Assembly election results confirmed that the Congress had won and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lost.
With Election Commission trends indicating that Congress looked poised for a win, Ramesh said that Karnataka has rejected the BJP’s campaign which was “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.
#WATCH | #KarnatakaElections | Congress' victory in Karnataka is PM Modi's defeat because no one campaigned in Karnataka except him. After (BJP's) Karnataka's defeat, Delhi's door is open for Congress in 2024: Jairam Ramesh, Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications pic.twitter.com/ECbWqFMpnZ
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According to the Congress leader, his party fought the Karnataka polls on local issues — livelihood and food security, price rise, farmer distress, electricity supply, joblessness, and corruption. He accused PM Modi of having injected divisiveness 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. (ANI)