The Karnataka victory has given the Congress and its allies a great hope in Maharashtra, which will have Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha polls next year. The Congress on Saturday said that the politics that happened in Karnataka was also repeated in Maharashtra, making it conducive for an anti-BJP perception.

In addition, the Congress attributed its success to Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. The party expects the Yatra to have a similar impact in Maharashtra, especially its traditional stronghold of Vidarbha, where it managed to recover some Assembly seats in 2019, but was way short of its past performance.