BJP micro-manages Karnataka campaign to target specific caste groups, counter Siddaramaiah's AHINDA support
6 years, 10 months ago

BJP micro-manages Karnataka campaign to target specific caste groups, counter Siddaramaiah's AHINDA support

Firstpost  

The Supreme Court’s order to the Karnataka government to release Cauvery waters could not have come at a more awkward time for chief minister Siddaramaiah and the Congress. The micro-management is happening at different levels — the broader tactical and strategic level of caste and community outreach to counter Siddaramaiah’s carefully cultivated AHINDA support, and at the constituency and booth levels, a process party president Amit Shah is adept at. Amit Shah’s carefully planned visits to prominent temples, influential mutts and carefully chosen caste conventions and rallies, especially among the marginalised caste groups, was part of broader campaign management. Amit Shah had visited the Maadara Channaiah mutt in Chitradurga and stoked the Madiga resentment against the Siddaramaiah government for not implementing a 2012 Justice AJ Sadashiva commission report which had recommended such a redistribution. Shah’s visit to another backward classes convention at Kaginele and a fishermen’s convention at Malpe were part of the party’s broader caste micro-management strategy.

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