We will form govt with absolute majority, party leadership confident: Basavaraj Bommai day before results

Basavaraj Bommai said booth-level data collected by party leaders show that BJP will win the polls with absolute majority even though the exit poll predictions are opposite.

Bengaluru: A day before results of the Karnataka assembly elections are announced, chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday claimed that the saffron party will form the government with absolute majority and said that he has informed the party leadership about the ground level situation.

Even as the exit polls have predicted Congress ahead BJP in the Karnataka Assembly elections, Bommai said: ''Our stand is the same. We will get absolute majority. We will definitely reach the magic number. I myself called the high command leaders and told them about the situation in Karnataka. No matter what the exit poll results are but we are confident of winning. The high command leaders are also confident that the BJP will form the government again,'' Bommai said while responding to reporters at his Bengaluru's RT Nagar residence.

''I have been reiterating that we will bag absolute majority. We have collected ground level information from all the constituencies and booths. The Congress won't get majority and so are talking with other parties,'' he said adding that the Congress has the right to hold as many meetings they want. "All parties will hold meetings but it is the BJP that will form the government,'' Bommai said.

During the day, Bommai held several rounds of meetings with senior party leaders and ministers. He went to senior party leader BS Yeddyurappa's residence and discussions were held on the reports and electoral data collected by the party from booth leaders.

Ministers Murugesh Nirani, Bairati Basavaraj and Rajya Sabha member and Yeddyurappa 's aide Lehar Singh were present at the meeting between Bommai and Yeddyurappa. Later, ministers including MTB Nagaraj and V Somanna reached Bommai's residence.