A father’s love for his son proved to be Siddaramaiah’s undoing Chamundeshwari did not allow Sidda-ramaiah a last hurrah. The chief minister lost the election to his former poll manager, GT Deve Gowda. It showed up Siddaramaiah as a poor strategist, giving up his safe Varuna seat for his son, Yathindra, to test his luck […]

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In Varuna, Siddaramaiah’s son Yathindra is gearing up to take on Abhishek, JD(S) candidate and son-in-law of Congress’ K Shadakshari. Yeddyurappa’s son was not allowed to contest at the last minute. Thus, the upcoming Karnataka elections are all set to see some ‘son’-rise, as well as some ‘son’-sets Darshan Puttannaiah would have been sitting on […]

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Badami, a taluk in north Karnataka, stands to gain by becoming the CM’s constituency if Siddaramaiah wins. But the long neglected electorate cannot be swayed by facile campaigns There are about 15 men and women who have lined up to collect their ration quota of kerosene in Paarvati hamlet in Badami constituency. Only three houses […]

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That’s the essence of the unholy war being waged by the Congress and the BJP to woo voters of Karnataka as leaders of both parties go temple hopping If Gujarat was the test case, Karnataka has seen the temple run being patented as an electoral strategy. In the run-up to the assembly elections on 12 […]

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At a rally, the Congress president said the ‘S’ in Janata Dal (Secular) stands for ‘Sangh’, perhaps forgetting that it is still a formidable force in this belt On the campaign trail in southern Karnataka, Rahul Gandhi took a break from targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party. Instead, he trained his guns at the Janata Dal […]

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Telangana CM is being accused of launching not a third front but BJP’s second front When Members of Parliament of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) along with fellow lawmakers from the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), did not allow the Lok Sabha to function for three days, it might have seemed like a […]

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The BJP’s extra-political relationship with YSR Congress and ignoring of Naidu’s complaints and demands led to resentment. Naidu’s decision is based on the surmise that Modi-led BJP will not get a majority on its in 2019 “Talaq, Talaq, Talaq” shouted some of Telugu Desam Party’s (TDP) MPs near Mahatma Gandhi’s statue in the Parliament House […]

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