Bengaluru/UNI: Karnataka Congress President DK Shivakumar on Wednesday said the BJP will not win beyond 65 seats in the upcoming assembly elections.

"We are sure of our numbers. We also are sure of BJP's. It will not go beyond 65.

Yediyurappa had given some numbers (winning about 140 seats) based on their survey. However I don't want to interfere with their party," he told reporters here.

Shivakumar also said the BJP's number will climb down to 40 seats as they got in the 2013 assembly polls.

"Therefore, it will not be a surprise if the 40 percent commission BJP government's numbers come down to 40 seats. People are angry," he said.

In the last polls, the BJP had won 104 seats in the 224-member Assembly, emerging as the single largest party, while Congress and JDS won 80 and 37 seats, respectively.

However, after a couple of years of JDS-Congress coalition rule, the BJP, under the leadership of BS Yediyurappa, cobbled up majority numbers by wooing defecting MLAs of coalition partners to form the government.