Cong confident of winning 130 seats: Ahmed

The president of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, Saleem Ahmed, said that they are confident of winning 130 seats in the next assembly election, but that they will also campaign with a broader goal of winning 150 seats. Ahmed was speaking to reporters after holding a district-level election committee meeting here on Monday. The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee has received nearly 1300 applications from seat aspirants in the state lists of aspirants have been sent to the respective districts for district-level scrutiny by leaders. It has already been decided that a list of candidates for about 150 assembly constituencies in the state will be announced before January 15. Ahmed said that the party is confident of winning because of the Narendra Modi government's poor performance in India.