Karnataka Elections: Election Campaigns Concluded

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Thu, May 10, 2018, 08:21 PM

Karnataka Elections: Election Campaigns Concluded

Bengaluru, May 10: The high-voltage election campaign for May 12 Karnataka Assembly elections came to an end on Thursday evening.

The vitriol-filled campaign witnessed last-gasp efforts by top leaders of both BJP, Congress and JD(S), including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi, to sway the voters in a likely cliff-hanger.

A wide range of issues, from corruption to communalism, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's Rs 70 lakh Hublot watch to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin, were raised in the electoral potboiler.

The voting will take place in the state on May 12 and the counting of votes will be done on May 15.

Polling will be held in 223 constituencies as election to the Jayanagar constituency in south Bengaluru has been countermanded due to the death of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate B.N. Vijaya Kumar on May 4.

Leaders of the three main contending parties - ruling Congress, BJP and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) - including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, who had invested heavily in the month-long campaign, held road shows and press conferences to wind up the mass contact programme of wooing the electorate.