Karnataka election win will help Congress in Rajya Sabha elections in 2024
2 min read 13 May 2023, 10:59 PM ISTThe tenure of four Rajya Sabha members from the state -- Syed Nasir Hussain, G C Chandrashekhar and L Hanumanthaiah of the Congress and Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar of the BJP -- ends in 2024.
PremiumKarnataka Assembly Election Results 2023: The Indian National Congress was granted the ruling position by voters of Karnataka, the results of which were declared on Saturday, 13 May.
The election results will also likely help the grand old party get its candidates elected in three of the four Rajya Sabha seats from the state falling vacant next year.
The tenure of four Rajya Sabha members from the state -- Syed Nasir Hussain, G C Chandrashekhar and L Hanumanthaiah of the Congress and Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar of the BJP -- ends in 2024.
The BJP, which won 65 of the 224 assembly seats in the state on Saturday, will be able to get its one nominee elected to the Rajya Sabha next year. The BJP currently has six Rajya Sabha members from Karnataka, including Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
Of the 12 Rajya Sabha seats from the state, the Congress has five members and the Janata Dal (Secular) one.
Former prime minister H D Deve Gowda is the lone JDS member in the Rajya Sabha.
The tenure of Deve Gowda and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will end in 2026, along with that of Iranna Kadali and Narayana Koragappa (both of the BJP).
The tenure of four other members, including Sitharaman, will end in 2028.
Making an emotional appeal to voters in his home turf on the last day of campaigning, Mallikarjun Kharge had asked them to take pride in the fact that he as a "bhoomi putra" of Karnataka had been made AICC president, and sought a win for the Congress in that name.
It looks like he struck an instant chord with the people, with the voters rewarding the Congress with a comfortable majority of 136 seats in the 224 member Karnataka Legislative Assembly for which elections were held on May 10, and the votes counted on Saturday.
The Congress returned to power on its own in Karnataka after 10 years, knocking the BJP off its only southern perch on Saturday as voters decisively backed the grand old party desperately seeking electoral revival ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The party won 135 seats and was leading in one.
| Party | Won | Leading | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 65 | 0 | 65 |
| Independent | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Indian National Congress | 135 | 1 | 136 |
| Janata Dal (Secular) | 19 | 0 | 19 |
| Kalyana Rajya Pragathi Paksha | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sarvodaya Karnataka Paksha | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 223 | 1 | 224 |
