Karnataka results: PM Modi congratulates Congress for big win, thanks BJP workers for hard work | India News
“I thank all those who have supported us in the Karnataka elections. I appreciate the hard work of BJP Karyakartas. We shall serve Karnataka with even more vigour in the times to come,” he said in another tweet.
The Congress is on track to win around 136 seats in the elections to the 224-member assembly.
Earlier in the day, as the trends made it clear that the Congress was heading to a major victory in the state, Rahul Gandhi said that the people of Karnataka had defeated “politics of hate”.
Addressing reporters at the Congress headquarters in Delhi, Rahul said the Congress stood in support of the poor. “The poor defeated crony capitalists in Karnataka. What I really liked about this election is that we did not fight the battle with hatred. We fought the elections with love,” he said.
“I want to thank all the party leaders and workers in Karnataka. Karnataka mein Nafrat ki bazaar band hui hai, Mohabbat ki dukaane khuli hai. We fought on the issues of the poor. We did not fight this battle using hatred and wrong words. This will happen in every state,” Rahul Gandhi told the mediapersons.
Rahul Gandhi had coined the ‘Nafrat ki bazaar band hui hai, Mohabbat ki dukaane khuli hai’ phrase during the Bharat Jodo Yatra which he undertook last year and ended this year in Srinagar. “Poor people defeated crony capitalists in Karnataka. We didn’t fight this battle using hatred…” he said.
(With inputs from agencies)
