It's the time for hot-Tip Sultans in Karnataka
1 year, 8 months ago

It's the time for hot-Tip Sultans in Karnataka

New Indian Express  

Away from the statistics, Karnataka has always been an arena that yokes the local and the national together and brings them into vexed negotiations. This is an election where the fading local memory of Nehru-Gandhi loyalties would be put to test perhaps for the last time. This is a state, after all, where it’s famously recounted that a voter in a Chamarajanagar village had to take the permission of his fellow villagers to vote for the Janata Party and not Indira Gandhi—and his was a lone vote. Advani were hosted and funded by old RSS/Jan Sangh supporters like the Shettys who ran the Thippaiah hotels. One generation of pan-Karnataka leaders—BSY, Kharge, Deve Gowda—too are at their old game, campaigning and strategising, for perhaps the last time.

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Hindustan Times  

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Hindustan Times  

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1 year, 3 months ago

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Deccan Chronicle  

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Deccan Chronicle  

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