BJP supporters in Bengaluru celebrate the party's good performance in the Karnataka elections. (Photo: Reuters)

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday congratulated the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for its performance in the Karnataka elections.

"Hearty congratulations to @BJP4India for their stellar performance in Karnataka. #KarnatakaVerdict," Mehbooba tweeted.

Hearty congratulations to @BJP4India for their stellar performance in Karnataka. #KarnatakaVerdict Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) May 15, 2018

DMK leader MK Stalin congratulated BJP's chief ministerial candidate BS Yeddyurappa for his party's victory in the Karnataka assembly election.

In a tweet, Stalin also told the new government in Karnataka to release the Cauvery water due to Tamil Nadu without defying the Supreme Court verdict on the river row.

As trends published by India Today TV showed the BJP's seat tally hovering around the 112-mark (half the number of elected seats in the assembly), BJP leaders delighted in what appeared to be yet another electoral triumph for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah.

"Trends indicate that the voters of Karnataka have opted for a decisive mandate," BJP national secretary Ram Madhav tweeted. He said the Modi-Shah duo's "hard work, strategy and mesmerism," enabled "another victory for the BJP."

Chief Minister Raman Singh, who will defend his mandate in Chhattisgarh from a Congress challenge later this year, said Karnataka's "historical mandate" was a "precursor" to "the inevitable BJP victory in (the) 2019 elections."

(With IANS inputs)

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