A day ahead of the Karnataka state election results, state Congress president DK Shivakumar said he is confident of a Clear Mandate and that his party is going to form the government on its own.

On Wednesday, the exit polls hinted a hung assembly in the 224 assembly southern state, predicting a neck to neck fight between both the Congress and the BJP.

Shivakumar told to a private media channel that he is sticking to Congress’s prediction of winning almost 150 seats and forming the government with a comfortable majority.

The potentital chief minister candidate Shivakumar added that he is not going to change either his expectations or the predicted numbers and that his party will come to power.

He added that a large fraction of leaders including both from the state and national level had put their efforts in campaigning for the Congress’s victory and even former chief minister Siddaramaiah along with others leaders covered the entire state ensuring the party winning with absolute majority.

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The state Congress chief denied of the speculations rising of his party holding internal talks with HD Kumaraswamy’s JD(S) who can serve as a kingmaker if results declare a hung assembly in the state.

A senior leader of the JD(S) earlier said the decision of the alliance has been taken and will be made public at the right time and that both the BJP and the Congress have reached out to them.

On a question of whether he will be picked as the CM if Congress is voted to power, Shivakumar replied, it would be decided by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

Meanwhile, Karnataka, the only southern state where the saffron party is in power hopes to retain the state and has also claimed that it would get a clear mandate.

This election is being closely watched by all the political parties especially the BJP and Congress.

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