00:00Well, the Congress may be planning a major rally in Delhi against the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar,
00:06but the fact is, the Congress has suffered an election reverse yet again.
00:11This time in the MLC, the Member of Legislative Council election that were held in the big states of Maharashtra,
00:17Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh.
00:19The Congress has drawn a blank so far, although it's giving a tough fight in the Nagpur seat at the
00:25moment in Maharashtra.
00:26The big reverse for the Congress came in Karnataka, where the BJP-JDS combined won all the four seats on
00:33offer.
00:34That was four out of four.
00:36In Uttar Pradesh, on the other hand, there was a tough fight.
00:39The BJP won six seats.
00:41The Samajwadi Party has gone up from three to five, making two gains.
00:45One in Agra, one in Lucknow, both taken from the BJP camp significantly.
00:49They won both the seats in Varanasi, which, remember, is the constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
00:56In Maharashtra, it's been a tough fight again.
00:58The Mahayuti or NDA is leading in three seats.
01:01The opposition MVA has won two seats, including Pune, where Sharad Bawar's NCP has won the seat.
01:07And in Nagpur, as I said, there's a tough fight going on, a ding-dong battle between the BJP and
01:13the Congress.
01:13In Bihar, the BJP won three seats.
01:16The JDU won one seat.
01:18But it's the RJD, which breached a BJP bastion to take one seat of Patna.
01:24And the Jan Suraj Party of Prashant Kishore also won one seat.
01:29The common factor, the Congress has scored a duck so far in all states.
01:33And nowhere worse than in Karnataka, where, remember, it has a ruling government.
01:39Take a look at just why this defeat for the Congress in Karnataka has repercussions.
01:50The Congress is shouting vote-chory from the streets to the political stage.
01:55But in Karnataka, the ballot box has delivered a different message.
02:07A 4-0 sweep for the NDA in the MLC polls.
02:10A zero-seat hall for the ruling Congress.
02:14The BJP clinched three seats and ally JDS won, reinforcing their unity in Karnataka.
02:21The BJP retained the Northeast Teachers, West Graduates and Southeast Graduates seat,
02:26while the JDS snatched the Bengaluru Teachers' seat from five-time Congress MLC Putana.
02:33The BJP wasted no time taking a dig at Chief Minister D. Keshivakumar,
02:38posting, D.K., it's done, bro.
02:41But here's the twist.
02:42These elections were conducted using ballot papers and not EVMs.
02:47The BJP and JDS used the result to target Rahul Gandhi's vote-chory campaign,
02:52arguing that Congress has failed to win even when ballot papers were used.
02:56The BJP also projected the sweep as a trailer for the 2028 Assembly elections.
03:03The Valkyrie
03:04which caused the Z torn out of the relationship with the OTA,
03:07and the Valkyrie campaign has been revealed in the Karnataka.
03:17In the Vatican issue, it was pointed out in the Tantaka.
03:23The Valkyrie campaign has been revealed in the Karnataka.
03:26It was revealed that the Valkyrie campaign has made the right decision
03:28in order to make the release of the Valkyrie campaign.
03:30It was revealed that the ballot paper and ballot box was stated on the Valkyrie campaign.
03:31The Valkyrie campaign has paved the way with the Valkyrie campaign.
03:35The Congress has acknowledged the setback, saying it must learn lessons from the defeat.
03:49So as Congress prepares to take its vote-chori charge to Delhi on November 1st,
03:54the NDA has handed it a political setback in Karnataka
03:58in an election conducted not on EVMs, but on ballot papers.
04:04Bureau Report, India Today.
