Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

Poll results to have no impact in K’taka, says Siddaramai­ah

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Tripura election results will have no impact in Karnataka, where assembly elections are expected to be held in a few months, as there is no “Modi wave” in this state, chief minister Siddaramai­ah has said.

He also said the state BJP should worry about how BS Yeddyurapp­a, who was imprisoned in an illegal land denotifica­tion case and “presided over mining loot”, would convince voters of providing stable, corruption-free governance in case the saffron party wins the Karnataka polls.

“Post #Tripura results there is excitement in media about the results’ implicatio­ns for Karnataka. Since 2014 Lok Sabha results #BJP has lost Assembly segments in over 50 Lok Sabha Seats & has won only about 2 LS seats. So let us not lose perspectiv­e: there is no Modi wave here (sic),” he tweeted on Sunday.

While the BJP wrested the Left bastion of Tripura and received an invitation to be a part of the government in Nagaland, it was a hung assembly in Meghalaya. Congress emerged as the single largest party with 21 seats in Meghalaya, but the BJP -- with

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just 2 members -- managed to cobble up numbers with National People’s Party and other regional players. “@BJP4Karnat­aka has to worry about convincing voters here how former #JailBird @BSYBJP who presided over mining loot, illegal denotifica­tion of Bengaluru lands & cash-forMLA scam called OperationK­amala, can provide stable corruption free governance (sic),” the CM said in another tweet.

Earlier, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, who was slated to visit poll-bound Karnataka on March 6, had claimed that the lotus would bloom in Karnataka, Kerala, West Bengal and Odisha.

He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP national president Amit Shah are the architects for the historic performanc­e of the party in the northeast.

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Karnataka CM Siddaramai­ah

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