India, April 19 -- Congress leader and Karnataka's infrastructure development minister MB Patil sounds confident of his party's improved performance in the Lok Sabha polls in the state - where polling will be held in two phases on April 26 and May 7 - from five years ago. In an interview to Saubhadra Chatterji, Patil, speaks about his party's strategy to take on the BJP-JD(S) alliance.

New Delhi: In 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP won 25 out of 28 seats and Congress was reduced to just one seat in Karnataka. How the situation has changed this time?

See, after that 2019 elections, the BJP orchestrated the Operation Kamala to form a government in Karnataka. Those four years of the BJP were worst compared to the Siddharamaiah government betw...