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Live election result of 50 Bidar constituency (Vidhana Soudha seat) in the Karnataka state Assembly elections 2018. Check who won and who lost and who will be the new Bidar MLA.

By 10 am, two hours after counting began, on Tuesday, the JD (S) had already proved exit polls wrong. While the party had been dubbed ‘Kingmaker’ based on the exit polls, its performance on Tuesday may propel it to power.

During an election campaign, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah had claimed that every vote cast for PM Narendra Modi in the Karnataka assembly polls is like casting it for him.

After first round of counting for Karnataka Assembly election result 2018, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to be in the pole position, but not a clear winner.

PM Narendra Modi's lavish praise for JD(S) supremo Deve Gowda has come as a big surprise to many as just a day earlier, the latter had declared that he would disown son Kumaraswamy if he goes with the BJP in case of a hung Assembly.

The names of former MLA Mahalingappa, Nagarada Mahadevappa and former MLC Shanthaveerappa Gowda were also doing rounds till last week.

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Live election result of 133 Tumkur Rural constituency (Vidhana Soudha seat) in the Karnataka state Assembly elections 2018. Check who won and who lost and who will be the new Tumkur Rural MLA.

Live election result of 144 Srinivasapur constituency (Vidhana Soudha seat) in the Karnataka state Assembly elections 2018. Check who won and who lost and who will be the new Srinivaspur MLA.

Live election result of 113 Shimoga constituency (Vidhana Soudha seat) in the Karnataka state Assembly elections 2018. Check who won and who lost and who will be the new Shimoga MLA.

Smriti Irani will now only handle the Textile Ministry. She was earlier removed as the HRD Minister and was replaced by Prakash Javadekar.

Yechury claimed that "if free and fair polls were conducted", the Left parties would have got more than 50 percent seats.

After a 19-day pre-Karnataka poll hiatus, the price of petrol was today hiked by 17 paise a litre and diesel by 21 paise as PSU oil firms began passing on the spike witnessed in international rates to consumers.

Siddaramaiah, the incumbent, himself has said that he was not averse to the idea of a Dalit CM even if the Congress wins on its own.

Sitharaman alleged, Chidambaram didn't disclose his investments to tax authorities, violating black money law, which was brought by Modi government as part of its drive against black money and to prosecute those Indians who have secretly stashed illicit w...

"I want to congratulate the voters of Karnataka. Till 6 pm, the voter turnout in the state was 70 per cent. Barring a few polling stations, voting has been completed at almost all," said Senior Deputy Election Commissioner Umesh Sinha.