NEW DELHI, May 22 -- Responding to the massive victory of the Congress party in the Karnataka Assembly elections, Rahul Gandhi said, "Shops of hatred are closed and the market of love is opened". People of Karnataka rejected decisively a culture of hate cultivated by the BJP-RSS combine by electing 135 Congress MLAs out of 244 with a vote share of 43.88%. The new government has to prove that the environment of hate created by the Hindutva organizations is replaced with love and harmony among the followers of different religions, cultures and languages. This is a great challenge for the new government along with providing a corruption-free administration.

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