In drought-hit Karnataka region, fears of change in Constitution find fertile ground
AT A TIME when the ruling Congress has made the “delay” in release of drought relief funds by the Centre to Karnataka a poll issue, the agrarian crisis is set to be the determining factor in Raichur, one of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in north Karnataka going to polls on May 7. Another is the fear that in its next term, a BJP government at the Centre would “change the Constitution”.