The Lok Sabha has been adjourned sine die (without assigning a day for further meeting) after the Congress win in Karnataka. The session ends two days earlier, with only the finance bill passed.

Congress leader Priyank Kharge who is leading from the Chittapur constituency says he doesn't mind being chief minister. His father union labour minister Mallikarjun Kharge is synonymous with development and social justice from the region and the son is reaping in the goodwill.

But for the ruling BJP, it has been an unparalleled decimation, with the Congress wresting power from it after a gap of seven years. The BJP's southern fort where it came to power for the first time in 2008 crumbled and the party has been pushed to the third position behind JD(S).

Exploiting the split in BJP and the spoiler's role played by former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, the Congress was ahead in 119 of the 223 constituencies that went to polls and has already won 11 seats.

The fledgling Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) floated by Yeddyurappa after his exit from BJP was leading only in more than ten seats while independents and others were ahead in 08 seats.

In the elections five years ago when BJP stormed to power for the first time in a southern state on its own, the party had won 110 seats against Congress' 80 and BJP's 28.

Pic: Congress leader Siddaramaiah