00:00Meanwhile, for Karnataka MLC elections, is it a turning wave that is reflective of what Karnataka's political equations have become?
00:08NDA has a 4-0 sweep in Karnataka MLC elections.
00:12The Bharatiya Janata Party has taken to mocking Rahul Gandhi and DK Shivtumar government after the clean sweep.
00:18BJP has taken to social media site and they say,
00:21DKS, it's done bro!
00:24Clearly, this slogan and mention by Salman Khan has gone from Sonam Wangchuk to CEC Gyanesh Kumar and now the
00:32BJP using it against the Congress Party.
00:34BJP says Rahul Gandhi can't even win postal ballot elections.
00:38This is a very significant dig, ladies and gentlemen.
00:40What has the Congress Party been asking?
00:42Get rid of the EVMs, return to the ballot paper era.
00:46BJP is saying, but Rahul Gandhi can't even win in postal ballot elections.
00:51Ballot or EVM, people are choosing the BJP.
00:55So what were the results like?
00:56BJP winning 3, JDS 1, Congress has drawn a 0.
01:00Congress concedes, says must learn lessons.
01:03But the Congress is defined, saying does not reflect the mandate.
01:07This is the Karnataka Legislative Council elections, 4-0.
01:11NDA has got all four seats.
01:12BJP secured Northeast teachers, West graduates and Southeast graduate seats.
01:16While the ally, JDS, flipping the Bengaluru teachers constituency.
01:19The police have, the police were, the elections that were held were via ballot papers and not EVMs.
01:28Let's listen into reactions coming in.
01:31Dekashri Kumar has given the statement, which he did, has all been cheated today.
01:36And the Congress Party, Rahul Gandhi Ji, has given the statement of the SIR and EVM machine.
01:43He was about to say many different states, so they were trying to say a lot.
01:48But today, BALADTKAKA will be the same on the ballot.
01:51This is the trial of the party.
01:52In this trial, the NDA party has had a great victory.
01:55In this trial, the EU or EVM machine, or a ballot.
01:58Both people have provided the NDA party.
02:00They have to say, that NERINDRA, Modi Ji, will be the same.
02:02He is also a complete victory.
02:05And we have done the victory.
02:15it is not as per expectation but it's a democratic system and if the people have chosen so be it
02:23there will be lessons learned and we'll be pulling up our socks but this is not a reflection of the
02:29performance of the government because it's a very very closed knit
02:32uh group that votes for the teachers uh constituency and generally the people who contest are either
02:39from the are in the bay are from the same background so i don't think it's a mandate
02:45on the performance of the government but yes there are lessons to be learned
02:50india today's editor nagarjun dwarkhanath is joining me for the latest nagarjun tell me more about
02:55what do you think then this represents as priyanka says otherwise it doesn't represent the mandate
03:00is this a surprise and a big victory that should be seen for the nda in karnataka
03:09when nda definitely will celebrate this because in the recent three years past they have lost all
03:14the by-elections of the assembly and this was the first win that they had remember just two three
03:18months back the mlas of the bjp also cross-voted for the congress in the uh election of mlcs so
03:23this
03:24is the first such uh you know victory that the bjp has got and they have all the rights to
03:28celebrate
03:28this likely they're doing it so as well in karnataka while this i don't say it's an embarrassment to
03:34the congress party i would definitely say this is a wake-up call to the congress party in karnataka
03:40this is the first election on paper that happened after dk shukumar took the chair of the chief
03:45minister yes the mls had cross-voted but these are the voters of this constituency like rightly said
03:52priyankar guess it is a closely knit uh voters four constituency two teachers and two graduates
03:58in karnataka so the voters were just thousands of people who voted for the candidate as well
04:03and which four zero three to the bjp one to the jds so nda four congress zero and that's the
04:09big mandate
04:09that's the uh the voters have given definitely this is not an embarrassment per se because this is a
04:16close-knit group but yes it's a wake-up call it's a testing times because in next for 15 months
04:21the karnataka
04:22a state will see uh assembly polls going on and it's definitely a wake-up call to the congress
04:27will now go back to the drawing room to see figure out what exactly went on now virgin i have
04:31to say
04:32here the congress plank was removed the evms they are being fussed but now these were ballot papers
04:37so that is one catch 22 that has come in for rahul rahul gandhi and the dk shivukumar congress
04:42party but how do you look at this jibe that is being picked up dks it's done bro i remember
04:48congress
04:49party doing this earlier saying gyanesh kumar it's done bro well that's true in fact the karnataka bjp
04:59has tweeted and posted a post on instagram that dk it's done bro using a old picture of 2023 uh
05:07budget
05:07time when dk was in opposition part opposition benches in the assembly he was he had kept flowered in his
05:12ear when bommai was delivering his budget speech that photograph is now used by karnataka bjp saying dk
05:18it's done bro which means to say that from here the down downward trend starts of the government
05:22of the chief minister 2028 looks done is what the bjp is saying but i would say it's a battle
05:28uphill still
05:29it's uh the state for grabs for anyone right now be dk shukumar edu rapassan vijendra or kumar swami
05:34here but it's definitely going to be very interesting because now like i said bjp has stated the success
05:40for the first time after three and a half years so and now yes with both jds and bjp will
05:46work more
05:47unitedly because they have tasted the victory right now it's a shot in the arm and in southern
05:51states any sort of inroads being made for the bjp of the nda clearly comes across as a big deal
05:56but
05:56tell me this uh nagarjun what kind of demographic are we looking at that voted for the nda and in
06:03these constituencies interesting names uh bengaluru teachers constituency uh tell us about the age group
06:09uh the gender aspect here the ratio that we are looking at
06:16so out of the four elections two-way graduates two-way teachers uh two in northern karnataka
06:21two in southern karnataka the big shot in the arm was the bangalood teachers constituency this is a
06:26close-knit group hardly few thousands of them would vote uh touching a lakh or so uh this candidate
06:32called puttana was an incumbent mlc of the congress party he's been an mlc for many many years now but
06:38he's not been mlc with congress he's been shifting parties he was with jds he was with the bjp in
06:432024
06:44he came on to the uh recently he came on to the congress party and now it was his term
06:49uh he he was
06:50a candidate for the congress once again for the jds candidate called ap ranganath won this election and
06:56both of them come from the same background ap ranganath is a lawyer and puttana has been an mlc in
07:01the
07:01teachers constituency for many years now teachers only can vote in this not the regular voters any
07:07voter who's a teacher can register and vote in this election and in graduate election you need to be a
07:13graduate a voter who's a graduate only then can register as a voter and vote so thousands would
07:18have voted uh in this election it's a close-knit election there's a paper ballot elections because
07:23the number of people voting are quite less and hence the election commission went back to paper
07:27ballot and this is the system that they have been following now the bjp has latched on to this point
07:32that even in paper and ballot congress they're not losing what more i'm curious by this picture if
07:37you can help jog my memory also i believe he's wearing headphones but are there is that flower on on
07:44his ear for dks what what day was it why was he putting on headphones when the chief minister of
07:50the
07:50state was speaking and giving the speech and do you think there could be a reason specifically that
07:54this image of dks has been used with dks it's done bro
08:02puja in fact the photograph that the bjp has picked up is from the 2023 budget session
08:08when dk was still in the opposition he was sitting in the first row of the opposition when bommai was
08:14the chief minister he was delivering the budget and in karnataka when in karnada language when someone
08:20keeps a flower on the ear that means do not try to make a fool out of us when budget
08:25was being read
08:25out the congress mlas had won a flower on their ear you know symbolically telling bombai government
08:31saying do not make a fool out of ourselves we are not buying whatever you are telling in the budget
08:35session so it's a proverb or a idiom in karnada saying that kiwi mele hua which means literally
08:40translation would be flower on the ear which means don't make a fool out of the other person as well
08:45and that same picture is used now by the karnataka bjp saying that dk it's done bro do not try
08:51to make
08:51fool out of others and try to put a flower on someone's ear so that's the symbolic photo that
08:56they've used right now but the caption clearly says dk it's done bro that's the trending uh statement that
09:02every politician is using in delhi now you saw what ganesh it's done bro and now in karnataka bjp has
09:08latched on to that saying that dk it's done bro saying that 2028 is now done clearly somebody in
09:14uh bjp karnataka unit had a memory to remember this image and then put it out with this caption
09:20but nagarja do you think it becomes slightly difficult for the congress party and considering
09:24this is one of the few congress governed states to to now push forward the evm aspect because
09:29now this will be what bjp will quote well we had the ballot paper you lost that too so what
09:34what about
09:34your leadership then well absolutely true the bjp is definitely going to make uh everything out of
09:43this because it was the paper ballot election that happened but the congress i don't think
09:47would not panic immediately because this was a closed group that voted these are not the general
09:52voters and crores and crores in number didn't vote for it uh they didn't campaign much hard also it
09:57largely depends on the constituency the candidate and the few mlas in charge there uh who take care of
10:03the elections if they don't work in cohesiveness that's what happens and now the congress will
10:07definitely go back to the drawing room to figure out what went wrong uh the general in charge of
10:12uh general secretary of karnataka surjewala might likely ask a report also but definitely a wake-up
10:17call to ensure that what are the loopholes that we are facing over the last three and a half years
10:22is there some fatigue that the government is facing within the voters it might not be the complete
10:27electorate that has voted but still a certain sector of the people who have voted is good enough to be
10:32a wake-up call and put what is your understanding and assessment because uh not only as a resident of
10:39the
10:39state but also because you've been reporting extensively on these elections that the graduates
10:43constituency teachers constituency would vote for an nda would vote for a bjp in a state that's been
10:49governed by the congress for the past few years well that's true remember bjp has ruled the state since
10:582008 per se they have eduropa has been for the four times kumar swami has been cm for twice bjp
11:05and jds
11:06are not new to karnataka sung after nagpur has his highest presence in karnataka bl santos right now
11:12number three in the party uh is from karnataka is the organization secretary so bjp is not new to
11:18karnataka or karnataka but however right now the graduates will be good number teachers will be good
11:24number what the bjp and jds are saying that educated people are starting to vote for the nda because you
11:30have a teacher you have a graduate who are educated they are the ones who are voting right now for
11:35nda
11:35and it's four zero if it was two to at least that would be some saving grace dk shiv kumar
11:40definitely
11:41has a task right now to go back to his drawing room to figure out what went wrong and maybe
11:45some changes
11:46in the organization to get the head's role as to who because of who did the election uh went away
11:52and
11:52remember when the government is there in power the party has more strength to so that they can push
11:58ministers to go on the ground talk to the people work implement schemes ensure that everything is
12:03in process right now but that's the big embarrassment that's coming in right now for the party and the
12:07government here that despite being in the government perhaps they lost this because of not being
12:12cohesiveness and a lot of uh election happened when the jds and bjp came together and now the big
12:19question about also that will this nda be enough to defeat the congress which has almost around 140
12:26seats in karnataka this is is this an uh exclusive reaction that has come in from one group or could
12:32this be a wake-up call for the congress to realize the tide is changing
