The counting of votes is still underway for all the 224 seats in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. In the initial trends, the Congress has crossed the majority mark of 113. Along with this, Congress workers have started distributing laddoos along with celebrating. Laddoos are also being distributed at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in New Delhi.
A worker arrived as Lord Hanuman: Amidst the celebrations at the AICC headquarters, a worker arrived in the form of Lord Hanuman. After which slogans of Jai Bajrangbali started echoing in the Congress headquarters. Let us tell you that the Congress had announced in its manifesto released for the Karnataka elections that on the lines of PFI, the Bajrang Dal has also been banned when its government comes. The BJP had also tried to give political color to this announcement of Congress by linking it to Lord Hanuman and to woo Hindu voters during the campaign.
BJP had leveled allegations on Congress: Senior BJP leader BL Santosh had said that Congress in its manifesto has also promised strict action against Bajrang Dal just to garner minority votes. He has said that Hindu and terrorism, Hindu and extremism could not go together. We have given the message of Om Shanti to the world. The BJP has also invoked Lord Hanuman in its counter-campaign.