Yeddyurappa Predicts Just 70 Seats for Congress, Says ’No Question’ of Alliance

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New Delhi, May 13, 2018 (News18): Even as most of the exit polls predict a hung Assembly in Karnataka, BJP’s chief ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa on Sunday put out his own figures, giving his party a majority and predicting only 70 seats for Congress.

Sounding confident of BJP’s victory, Yeddyurappa said, “I have seen the exit polls on various channels. BJP will form the majority government on Tuesday and Congress will exit from Karnataka. There is no question of joining hands with anyone.”

Giving the break-up of Assembly seats, he further said, “While we will get 130 seats, Congress won’t cross 70. JD(S) will manage 25 seats and Independents will win 3-4 seats.”

The saffron party leader said that as soon as he comes the chief minister, he will waive off loans as promised in the manifesto, and slammed Siddaramaiah for being an “anti-farmer” and “anti-people”.

When asked about Siddaramaiah’s tweet asking Congress workers not to worry about exit polls, Yeddyurappa said, “I am not saying Siddaramaiah should believe exit polls. He, anyway, won’t cross 70 seats. I want to make it clear that Siddaramaiah’s term is over. He will lose both in Chamundeshwari and Badami.”

“Look at the way he has been behaving for the past 15 days. It is Siddaramaiah who is mentally confused,” the BJP leader said, while hitting out at the CM was calling him “mentally disturbed”.

Most exit polls have predicted a tight race between the Congress and the BJP with the possibility of the Janata Dal (Secular) emerging as the kingmaker. Republic TV-Jan Ki Baat and ABP-C Voter predicted that the BJP will emerge as the single largest party by bagging 104 and 104-116 seats, respectively, in the 224-member House.

The two news channels gave the incumbent Congress 78 and 83-94 seats and former prime minister HD Deve Gowda-led JD(S) 37 and 20-29 seats, respectively.