With the Bharatiya Janata Party staking claim to form government in Karnataka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asserted that his party will not allow the state's development journey to be trampled upon, terming the assembly poll results an 'unparalleled and unprecedented win'. Watch the live streaming of Karnataka assembly election results 2018 on Zee News

Out of 225 Karnataka Assembly segments, 222 went to the polls on May 12. While most exit polls predicted a hung Assembly with the BJP ahead, two said the BJP would either come very close to or cross the halfway mark of 112 seats, while the India Today-Axis exit poll said the Congress might bag a majority. Sources said that Congress president Rahul Gandhi discussed the issue with Sonia Gandhi and decided to play out the card of offering chief ministership to HD Kumaraswamy, the son of JD-S supremo and former prime minister HD Deve Gowda. NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India’s ruling party was leading on Monday but was short of an outright majority as votes were counted from an election in a big southern state seen as a gauge of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity ahead of general elections next year.
The ruling party of India, the Bharatiya Janata Party, wins plurality in state assembly elections in Karnataka.