“No doubt” Congress will win most of Karnataka seats: Kharge

After casting his vote in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said the grand old party will register a thumping majority in the state and that there “was no doubt” about it.

The 81-year-old Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha was accompanied by his wife Radhabai Kharge to a polling booth at Basavanagara.

While speaking to reporters here, he said, “Things are good; good reports are coming from everywhere. Alliance partners (INDI Alliance) are getting strength in this third phase (nationally). Definitely in this phase too we will get good support from the people,” he added.

Kharge said that he has been voting from Basavanagara in Kalaburagi since he became eligible for voting at the age of 21 (It is now 18).

“I never got it (polling locality) changed. When I became Minister, when I became opposition leader, KPCC (Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee) President, opposition leader in Parliament, I have never forgotten Basavanagara,” he said.

“People here have given me love and affection, they really developed my leadership. I'm grateful to the poor people, who stood with me. I'm with them,” he added.

Kharge's son-in-law Radhakrishna Doddamani is the Congress candidate from Gulbarga (Kalaburagi) Lok Sabha segment, which the Congress veteran represented twice (2009, 2014), but lost in 2019.