BJP Will Cross The Magic Figure, Says Karnataka CM Bommai

A day ahead of the counting of votes in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday reiterated that the BJP is all set to cross the magic number and will get the majority.

"There is no chance of a hung Assembly, we are going to form the government comfortably. Let DK Shivakumar be happy with his 141 seats till tomorrow. We will have a legislature party meeting to decide the CM's face," Bommai told reporters.

The chief minister further said that a legislature party meeting will decide on the Chief Minister's face.

To a question on the JDS leader's announcement that they have decided with whom they will align to form the government, Bommai said "Everyone has the right to do their own assessment. Earlier, Kumaraswamy said he will not be a kingmaker but a king."

Just a day ahead of the Karnataka election results, JDS made a huge claim saying that they have already decided on its alliance partner.

Speaking to ANI, JDS leader Tanveer Ahmed said that the party had already decided with whom it would form the government in Karnataka.

However, he did not reveal the name of the alliance partner, saying that the party would announce it to the public at the appropriate time.

"We have already decided with whom we are going to form the government. We will announce it to the public when the appropriate time comes. There are certain programmes that we really want to implement for the betterment of Karnataka and Kannadigas... We know who is more capable of doing it and we will go with them," Tanveer told ANI.

He also claimed that both Congress and BJP have reached out to them.

Hours later, JDS distanced itself from Tanveer's statement, saying the party has not decided anything on the alliance.

Tanveer Ahmed is not a JDS spokesperson or a member of our party. He is nothing, he quit the party long back. We have not decided anything on coalition govt, we will take a call on alliance after the results," Karnataka JDS President CM Ibrahim.

It is to be noted that most of the exit polls have predicted that there will be a hung assembly, with an edge to Congress over the ruling BJP.