Tripura poll results will have no impact in Karnataka: Siddaramaiah
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Just a day after the Tripura Assembly election results were announced, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday said there is no "Modi wave" in this state, and the result will have no impact in his state, where Assembly elections are expected to be held in a few months time. The chief minister also took a dig at state BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa. Here's more.
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Karnataka Chief Minister's tweet post Tripura poll results
Post #Tripura results there is excitement in media about the results’ implications for Karnataka.
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) March 4, 2018
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
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Siddaramaiah slams state BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa
Siddaramaiah said that the BJP in Karnataka should worry about how state party chief Yeddyurappa, who was imprisoned in an illegal land denotification case, cash-for-MLA scam, and "presided over mining loot", would convince voters of providing stable, corruption-free governance in case the saffron party wins the Karnataka polls. The chief minister also termed the BJP chief as a former jailbird.
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Lotus to bloom in Karnataka, Kerala, West Bengal, Odisha: Yogi
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. Earlier, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who was slated to visit poll-bound Karnataka on March 6, had said the lotus would bloom in Karnataka, Kerala, West Bengal and Odisha.