Bengaluru: Congress has made a comeback in Karnataka, with its best electoral performance in the State since 1989. As per the results declared by the Election Commission in all the 224 seats, the Congress has won 135 seats, the BJP’s tally has been reduced to 66 and the JD(S) 19. Independents have won two seats and Kalyana Rajya Pragathi Paksha and Sarvodaya Karnataka Paksha have won one seat each.
The saffron party, hoping to break the 34-year-old anti-incumbency jinx in the State, managed to win 66 seats. The people of the State handed the Congress a resounding win that left no scope for any resort politics. With the resounding victory, Karnataka stayed true to its nearly 40-year custom of not bringing back the incumbent Government.
