The Election Commission of India will announce the time table for the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections today. The ballot frame will announce the date at 11:30 am. The time period of the 224-member Karnataka Assembly ends on May 24. The BJP has set a goal of triumphing at the least one hundred fifty of the entire 224 seats withinside the Assembly on the way to pass for polls in May. Out of the 224 seats withinside the Karnataka Assembly, the ruling BJP has set a goal of triumphing at the least one hundred fifty. Meanwhile, the Congress and the JD(S) have introduced their first lists of 124 and ninety three applicants respectively.
In what can be a key ballot problem withinside the state, the Basavaraj Bommai-led Karnataka authorities ultimate week introduced new classes for reservation in jobs and education. Chief Minister Bommai additionally scrapped the four in keeping with cent quota reserved for Other Backward Classed (OBC) Muslims. The four in keeping with cent reservation will now be disbursed some of the Vokkaliga and Lingayat groups equally.
The 224-seat-robust Karnataka Assembly presently has 119 MLAs of the BJP, at the same time as Congress has seventy five and its best friend JD(S) has 28 seats. Chief Minister Bommai on Tuesday accused Karnataka Congress leader DK Shivakumar of luring BJP MLAs through supplying them tickets to constituencies wherein the Congress is but to announce its applicants for the imminent polls.
“KPCC President D K Shivakumar for the reason that ultimate to a few days has been making telecellsmartphone calls to our MLAs in one hundred constituencies wherein they may be but to announce tickets. He is mentioning that if you (BJP MLAs) come (to Congress) we are able to provide you with the ticket,” Mr Bommai said, as quoted through information corporation PTI. Congress and its allies alternatively are driving excessive on anti-incumbency and numerous corruption allegations towards the BJP as they combat to go back to power.
The ballot frame can also announce dates for the bypolls to Wayanad and Jalandhar. The bypoll to Wayanad is necessitated following Congress chief Rahul Gandhi`s disqualification as an MP. Jalandhar is braced to move for polls following the demise of sitting Congress MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary in January.
