2008-05-26 15:57:15 - A turning point comparable to BJP's quantum jump said by Shri L K Advani in his press release.
Snap poll called for Karantaka assembly of 224 seats due to hung parliament in last elections.Recent election final results, Congress has won 80 seats JDS 28 and independent 6 and BJP stood with major share 110 seats.BJP still is at the uneven road a harp on voters sympathy.

BJP in Karnataka assembly election is three short of majority and it is first time that saffron has made dent in an important states of South India.A state which is venguard to the country"s advancement in leaps and bounds in information, technology and neo knowledge industry.

An intellect state with diverse culture ,miniature India falls short in stability of state politics.

An infrastructure need of the hours,the state looks for stable government and the thin majority of BJP will find difficult to retain their grip on goverance.

B S Yeddyurappa has been elected the leader of BJP legislatures in Karnatka assembly and a separate meeting of senior leader were held to chalk out the strategy of formation of government.The elected leader and CM designated B S Yeddyruappa along with central leaders of BJP to meet the Governor of Kanataka to offer their claim to form the government.

A state which has past political history of defection,change of government and leadership, lure the disgruntled lots or left over legislature to form a syndicate to form next government is in state of rajor edge majority which appears to be in tenterhook with two-three displaced legislature going either way make the formation of government a very soft targets.

BJP party has made its roots in the important states of southern India,non-hindi speaking belt is matter of achievement to their rank and file and is time of celebrations.

Shri Lal Krishna Advani BJP Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha said in his party web site www.bjp.org/ .After the BJP's decisive victories in the Vidhan Sabha elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh towards the end of 2007, I had stated that 2008 would turn out to be a ‘Year of Change' in national politics. My affirmation has been vindicated by the triumphant performance of the BJP in the Vidhan Sabha elections in Karnataka.

I sincerely thank the people of Karnataka for giving a mandate to my party. I also heartily congratulate the state unit of the BJP and Shri B.S. Yedyurappa, under whose leadership the party contested the elections, for this victory. This is a verdict against the Congress party's politics of opportunism and the JD(S)'s politics of betrayal.

However, the Congress party would be indulging in self-delusion if it thought that the people of Karnataka were influenced only by local factors. The UPA government's utter failure to control the prices of essential commodities, its soft and compromising policy on terrorism, and its insensitivity towards the plight of kisans have angered common people all over the country. This is evident from the Congress party's defeat in almost all the Vidhan Sabha elections held since May 2004.

I have no doubt that my party's triumph in Karnataka will prove to a turning point comparable to the quantum increase in parliamentary strength that the BJP achieved in 1989. It will be recalled that the BJP won 86 seats in the 1989 Lok Sabha elections compared to only two seats in 1984. Thereafter, the BJP's victory march became unstoppable and led to the formation of the BJP-led NDA government in 1998. It also ended the Congress' one-party domination at the Centre and transformed India's polity into a bi-polar system.

Nearly 20 years later, another turning point has arrived in the challenge put up by the BJP to the hegemony of the Congress. Whereas earlier our party's growth was due to its ability to form governments in northern and western states, and also, later, in Orissa and Bihar in the east, now for the first time we are in a position to form government in a southern state. This geographical expansion of the BJP, and the simultaneous shrinkage of the Congress party almost all over the country, shows the shape of things to come in the run-up to the next parliamentary elections.