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Friday, April 20, 2018

2018 Karnataka Assembly Elections May 12,2018 -A Look At The Past Assembly Elections

  1. In 1978, when Karnataka went to the polls after an extended tenure of the fifth Assembly and while the nation's politics was dominated by anti-Indira wave and Janata Party was winning elections, one after another, the state voted for a Congress government.
  2. In 1983, when Indira Gandhi was the prime minister and the Congress was back at the helm of affairs, Karnataka voted for Janata Party resulting in the first non-Congress chief minister in the state.
  3. In 1984, when Lok Sabha elections were held, the Congress swept the polls winning 414 seats, Karnataka too voted for the party forcing the then chief minister Ram Krishna Hegde to resign taking moral responsibility for the defeat of the Janata Party, which could win only four of 28 parliamentary seats.
  4. Karnataka Assembly election was held in 1985 and the Janata Party was voted to power with full majority. The voters in Karnataka showed immense maturity in voting differently for the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls.
  5. In 1989, Vishwanath Pratap Singh quit the Congress in the aftermath of Bofors scandal and formed Janata Dal bringing together splinter groups of the Janata family. The Congress was routed in the Lok Sabha elections. The results were strikingly different in Karnataka, which voted a Congress government to power.
  6. Five years later, when a Congress government was at the Centre led by PV Narasimha Rao, a politician from South India, Karnataka voted for a Janata Dal government. In 1994, Deve Gowda became the chief minister and saw his standing rising fast in the national politics.
  7. In 1999 the BJP-led NDA came back to power after mid-term parliamentary polls and Atal Bihari Vajpayee government was voted to complete its full-term. The same year, Karnataka voted for a Congress government. SM Krishna's tenure as Karnataka chief minister matched with that of Atal Bihari Vajpayee as prime minister.
  8. In 2004, both Vajpayee and Krishna lost their posts. The Congress-led UPA was voted to power at the Centre and the BJP with JD(S) won Karnataka Assembly election.
  9. In 2008, Karnataka voted for the BJP after it went to mid-term polls. The Congress-led UPA returned to power next year. But Karnataka decided voted in favour of BS Yeddiyurappa and the BJP.
  10. The segregated national and regional trends continued even in 2013-14. In 2013, the Congress won Karnataka Assembly election but the BJP secured largest chunk of votes both in Karnataka and nationally for the Lok Sabha elections

BJP hopes that with BS Yeddiyurappa and B Sriramulu back in its fold, it will trump the Congress government of Siddaramaiha, only the third party chief minister of Karnataka to complete his tenure since 1952. Devraj Urs (1972-77) and SM Krishna (1999-2004) were the other Congress chief ministers who served for entire duration of the Assembly.

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