The polls in the BJP-ruled southern state is likely to be held over a couple of phases. Though the term of the Karnataka assembly expires on June 3, the EC feels May will be too hot and is keen to wind up the exercise in April itself.
Congress goes into the state polls with an edge, having finished way ahead of BJP in the recently concluded urban local body polls in the state. While the BJP's tally shrank to 907 seats, Congress bounced back by winning 1,906 seats.
Karnataka is the first big state to go to polls after the elevation of Rahul Gandhi as the Congress vice-president. The last assembly poll exercise in February was confined to the three small north-eastern states of Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura.
The Congress's victory in Karnataka will enthuse the party workers ahead of the next major round of assembly polls in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, due later this year.
On the other hand, the state's ruling party, the BJP, seems to be in disarray ever since former CM and Lingayat strongman B S Yeddyurappa, who was asked to step down in 2011 in the wake of corruption charges, parted ways and formed his own party. There has been steady erosion in the BJP's votebase, as was evident from the drubbing it got in the latest urban body elections.
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