Karnataka Election 2023 Highlights: EC asks Congress chief to clarify, rectify social media post on Karnataka's sovereignty

Election Commission asks Karnataka BJP to provide verifiable, traceable facts by Tuesday to prove allegations levelled against the Congress passport.

The EC said: “While general claims and accusations are part of election campaigns, specific allegations and claims about the opponents need to be supported by verifiable and traceable facts. Any claim made without basis and empirical evidence has potential of misleading the voters thereby robbing them of their right of making right and informed choices amongst the candidate thus disturbing level playing field.”

BJPnational leaders have held a total of 206 public meetings and 90 roadshows, while its state leaders have held 231 public meetings and 48 roadshows.

Election Commission writes to the Congress chief to clarify, and rectify the social media post on Karnataka's sovereignty.

BJP will form government with full majority in Karnataka, there is enthusiasm for party in every region, says Amit Shah

Bihar Congress files a Police complaint against Karnataka BJP candidate Manikanth Rathod over his reported "eliminating Mallikarjun Kharge and his family" statement.

"This is very condoning that BJP leader, Manikanth Rathod has expressed his intentions to finish off Mallikarjun Kharge and his family. We have registered an FIR over this," says Congress leader Ajit Sharma.

“We don't have to learn about reservation and Constitution fromAmitShah,” saysKarnatakaCongress President DKShivakumar.

Congress says BJP charge 'fakery and falsehood', accuses it of denigrating state's 'swabhimaan'.

The BJP is spreading lies and misinformation to divert the attention of people from their "inept governance, corruption and price rise", Congress leader and deputy Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka assembly UT Khader said on Monday.

He said the Congress will implement the party’s guarantee scheme for the benefit of the common people. “The BJP’s loss and Congress win in the coming election is also a Congress guarantee," he said.

Khader said he will resign as MLA if all the guarantees are not implemented by an elected Congress government within six months.

-- Enforcement teams made seizures totalling over Rs 375 crore in poll-bound Karnataka since the model code of conduct came into force on March 29, the Election Commission said on Monday.

-- The total seizures (Rs 375.6 crore) include cash (Rs 147 crore), liquor (Rs 84 crore), gold and silver (Rs 97 crore), freebies (Rs 24 crore), and drugs/narcotics (Rs 24 crore), the office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Karnataka, said.

-- As many as 2,896 FIRs have been booked with regard to seizures.

“My only appeal to brothers and sisters in Karnataka is that please vote for stability and development. I appeal that please don’t vote for BJP. They are dangerous,” West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee

"Siddaramaiah must clarify..." Amit Shah questions Congress promise to increase Muslim reservation in Karnataka.

The high voltage campaign for the May 10 Assembly elections inKarnatakawill come to an end on Monday as all three major political parties in the state --BJP, Congress and JD(S) -- are busy making their last pitch to woo the voters.

The top guns of all the major political parties were on a campaign blitz across the state in the past few days, even as the rulingBJPhas been striving to break the 38-year-old pattern of alternating governments and retain its southern citadel.

Amid a row over Karnataka Congress manifesto mentioning the ban on Bajrang Dal, BJP chief JP Nadda says, "They themselves mentioned the ban. When they said, people showed them the result. If you use such words to appease someone & decide that the other side should not react, it can't happen..."