Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, said on Saturday that the Karnataka assembly election results showed that people “want plurality” and that “no central design to dominate” can crush them.
The feisty TMC leader praised Karnataka’s voters for their decision to support change while claiming that “brute authoritarian and majoritarian” politics had been defeated.
Salutations to the Karnataka people for your unwavering support for progress! Majoritarian and brutally authoritarian politics are defeated!
The conclusion of the tale and lesson for tomorrow is that no central plan can control people’s spontaneity when they desire pluralism and democratic forces to prevail.
According to the most recent trends on the Election Commission website, the BJP has won 45 seats and is ahead in 19, while the Congress has won 100 of the 224 assembly seats in Karnataka so far and is leading in 36.