Is Mangaluru Cabinet meet a political advantage to Congress?

While the Congress is confident that the State Cabinet’s decisions taken in Mangaluru will help improve its political prospects in coastal Karnataka, the BJP feels that its traditional voters will not be influenced by such moves.

Of the 19 Assembly seats in the three coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, and Uttara Kannada, the BJP won 13 seats, leaving six to the Congress in the last Assembly election held in 2023. In the 2018 election, the BJP had won 16 seats, leaving three to the Congress. Later, it snatched one more seat (Yellapur in Uttara Kannada) from the Congress in the 2019 by-election, increasing its tally to 17.