Karnataka by-poll result: RSS frets support base may ditch 2019 LS election

For the record, the Congress-JD(S) alliance won two of the three Lok Sabha seats that went to polls, and both the assembly seats

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Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy arrives at Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru on July 5 | Photo: PTI

Archis Mohan New Delhi

Last Updated : Nov 06 2018 | 11:00 PM IST

The Congress-Janata Dal (Secular), or JD(S), alliance won two of the three Lok Sabha and both the Assembly seats in Karnataka that went to polls on Saturday, and whose results were announced on Tuesday.

The results were a confidence booster for the Congress-JD(S) alliance as it prepares for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in the state, and brought focus on the successive defeats of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Lok Sabha and Assembly bypolls held in 2018.

Leaders of the Congress and the JD(S) said the two parties successfully transferred their respective votes to the candidates of their alliance

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