Karnataka CM Bommai concedes defeat; says will comeback in Lok Sabha elections

HAVERI/BENGALURU  — Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has conceded defeat in the Assembly elections even as the final announcement of the election results was awaited on Saturday. He said that the BJP will comeback in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

"We will come back in Lok Sabha elections," CM Bommai said.

#Karnataka CM #BasavarajBommai concedes defeat; says we will comeback in Lok Sabha Election. #KarnatakaElectionResults2023 #KarnatakaAssemblyElections2023 #Congress #BJP pic.twitter.com/h7w50K2IbC

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Speaking to reporters at Haveri, he said, "We have not been able to make the mark in the elections in spite of a lot of efforts put up by everybody right from our Prime Minister to workers. Congress was able to make the mark. We will sit for analysis once the results are announced. As a national political party, we will analyse and identify the gaps and deficiencies and improve upon them."

"We take this result in our stride and reorganise the party and we will comeback in the Lok Sabha elections," CM Bommai stated.

HD Kumaraswamy wins but son Nikhil loses

In a shock to former PM H.D. Deve Gowda's family, his grandson and JD-S candidate Nikhil Kumaraswamy lost the Ramnagar seat to Congress candidate H.A. Iqbal Hussain.

#Congress' Karnataka state president #DKShivakumar has won from the #Kanakapura constituency in Ramanagara district by a margin of over 57,000 votes.

BJP's R. Ashoka lost by a big margin, and JD(S)'s B. Nagaraju finished second in the contest.#KarnatakaElectionResults2023 pic.twitter.com/xWABNANNif

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Hussain polled 72,898 votes and Kumaraswamy secured 61,692 votes. BJP candidate Gautham Gowda managed to get only 10,870 votes. This is the second defeat for Kumaraswamy. His mother Anita Kumaraswamy represented the seat earlier.

Karnataka Congress President D.K. Shivakumar had appealed to the voters to support his party candidate as Nikhil Kumaraswamy can get opportunities in future.

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Conceding the defeat, his father and former CM H.D. Kumaraswamy stated that he will accept the victory and defeat in the same spirit.

H.D. Kumaraswamy won against the BJP's C.P. Yogeshwar in Channapatna.