Karnataka election 2018: Where is Rahul Gandhi?

The BJP has left the Congress far behind in the race to win Karnataka CMO. The Congress had taken the lead earlier in the day, but the BJP changed that scene quickly.

At the moment, the BJP is lingering on the borders of the 100-seat mark in the Karnataka vote-counting race, leaving the Congress to trail at the 60-seat mark, and the JDS at 40.

While there are a lot of questions on peoples' minds at the moment, the million-dollar question is, where is Rahul Gandhi in this thick of action?

As the Congress stands to lose its dear seat of Karnataka to the BJP, Congress president Rahul Gandhi seems to be AWOL. His last tweet was over 20 hours ago.

To be fair, PM Modi and BJP president Amit Shah haven't spoken about the Karnataka vote-counting trends yet either.

On the last day of campaigning last week, Rahul Gandhi has confidently stated at a press conference that the Congress was bound to come back to power in Karnataka.

"The outcome of Karnataka elections is that the Congress is winning hands down," Rahul Gandhi had said.

"He [Modi] is absolutely convinced now -- and he is right -- that he is going to lose Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and in 2019," he added.

Looks like the winds of change aren't in his favour.

Karnataka went to polls in 222 of 224 Assembly seats on Saturday, May 12.

Exit polls for Karnataka Assembly election had predicted hung Assembly in the state with different agencies putting the Congress and the BJP in lead with JD(S) occupying the third position. The exit polls indicated that the JD(S) may play the kingmaker in post-poll scenario.