New Delhi: Nine Muslim candidates, all from the Congress, emerged victorious in the Karnataka Assembly polls.

Bengaluru: The recent election results in Karnataka have sparked a wave of celebration in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had promoted the film ‘The Kerala Story’ during the campaign, which is based on the ‘love jihad’ conspiracy theory and was criticized for being anti-Muslim and political propaganda by opposition parties. The BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, had warned the people of Karnataka to “look at Kerala” and suggested that if they did not vote for the BJP, their state would become like Kerala.

A day after the counting of votes of Karnataka, the Congress party on Thursday announced that the Chief Minister of the state will be sworn in on Thursday, but did not name the Chief Minister after the meeting of the party MLAs were held in the city here on Sunday.

A day after the Congress romped to victory in the Karnataka Assembly elections, the party's state unit president D K Shivakumar on Sunday hinted that he is in the chief ministerial race saying he took everyone along and never sought anything for himself.

AICC general secretary in-charge of Karnataka Randeep Singh Surjewala on Sunday said Latha Mallikarjun, who has got elected as an independent from Harapanahalli Assembly segment has extended unconditional support to the Congress party in the State.

Karnataka BJP has decided to do a detailed analysis of the overall poll results and also constituency-wise outcomes to find out the reasons for the party's debacle in the Assembly election, outgoing Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Sunday.

Karnataka Director General of Police Praveen Sood has been appointed as the next director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, a government order said on Sunday.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has appointed former chief minister Sushilkumar Shinde and party leaders Jitendra Singh and Deepak Babaria as observers for the election of the CLP leader in Karnataka.