Karnataka is set to see a high-voltage battle on the seat of Kanakapura, just 65 kilometres away from Bengaluru, where senior BJP leader and revenue minister R Ashok will enter the lair of state Congress chief DK Shivakumar and take him head on. Ashok — also a Vokkaliga leader like Shivakumar — hopes to cash in on the Narendra Modi …
A week is a long time in politics, and five years can be a millennia, if one goes by the trajectory of at least two out of the three main players of the opposition line up in Gujarat in the 2017 polls — Hardik Patel and Alpesh Thakor — with the third, Jignesh Mevani holding on to the opposition plank …
Hurt by Patels’ anger, the BJP in Gujarat is now putting it money on the OBCs as well as the tribals, who along with Patels account for 60 percent of total votes in the state Ask any patel about his political allegiance, and he is quick to retort, “P to P na vote aape na stock. BJP’s rise The Patel’s …
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