Bengaluru: The people of Karnataka will vote in the assembly election on Saturday. NDTV's Prannoy Roy and team discuss the election and the issues that dominate the political rallies in the southern state, where the Congress is in power led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. The BJP has deployed its star campaigners in Karnataka, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and run a high-decibel campaign to take the state from the Congress. For the Congress, its president Rahul Gandhi has been campaigning extensively across the state. UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi also spoke at a rally in Karnataka today, her first election speech after a gap of two years. The Karnataka assembly election is going to be a close fight, opinion polls show, with political parties trying to attract the influential castes such as the Lingayats and the Vokkaligas.

Here are the highlights of the Karnataka election analysis: