The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) blamed Karnataka’s ruling coalition partners Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) for its defeat in the state civic polls held across 22 districts.
“The BJP should have won more seats but we could not perform the way we wanted to because of the Congress-JD(S) coalition,” BJP state unit President BS Yeddyurappa told reporters in Bengaluru.
The party, however, is confident of winning a majority in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Yeddyurappa said. “People’s mandate is with the BJP and we are confident of a majority in the next year’s general election,” he added.
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