Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has stated that the Congress party expects to win between 15 and 20 seats in the state in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The Congress party has completed some surveys and is not lying about winning all 28 seats in the state. The BJP won 25 seats in the 2019 polls, while an independent won one seat. The Congress and JD(S) won one seat each.
Stating that no one is indispensable to anyone, either for him or for the BJP, Kumaraswamy further said the JD(S) had already contested parliamentary polls independently several times and won two or three seats. Now, after Congress getting 135 seats and JD(S) 19 seats in Assembly polls, the grand old party leaders are projecting as though something has happened to JD(S) and are questioning its survival, he said.