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Patchy implementation of the welfare schemes, the recent murder of a young college girl in Hubballi, the Narendra Modi factor, and a silent mutiny by a top leader have landed the Congress on a sticky wicket in the reserved constituency of Kolar in south Karnataka that was once its bastion.
On Friday evening, soon after holding an election meeting in Malur for the Janata Dal (Secular) candidate in Kolar – one of the three Lok Sabha seats that his party is contesting in Karnataka in an alliance with the BJP – party supremo and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, 91, headed to the house of BJP dissident Hoodi Vijay Kumar to seek his support.
The BJP has dropped a poster boy of Hindutva in Karnataka, Anantkumar Hegde, and has given a fresh lease of life to two losing candidates from the Karnataka Assembly polls of 2023, including former CM Jagadish Shettar who left the party in 2023, in its list of four candidates from the state announced on Sunday night.
When the S M Krishna-led Congress government was in power in Karnataka between 1999 and 2004, among the names that did the rounds of the power corridors were those of two sons-in-law. One was Krishna’s son-in-law V G Siddhartha, who passed away in 2019, and the other was Mallikarjun Kharge’s son-in-law Radhakrishna Doddamani.
In January 2021 in Karnataka, shortly after the then BJP chief minister B S Yediyurappa inducted seven new ministers into his Cabinet, a row broke out with some BJP dissidents alleging that the CM was “blackmailed” with a private video to make some of these appointments.
Over three years after Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and state Congress chief D K Shivakumar, and four associates, filed criminal pleas against an Enforcement Directorate (ED) money laundering case, the Supreme Court on March 5 granted relief to the Congress leader by setting aside the case.
Congress Karnataka leader Syed Naseer Hussain who finds himself fighting off BJP allegations of being “anti-national”, is a student leader from Jawaharlal Nehru University, former political science teacher, and now a two-time Rajya Sabha MP, who once asked the BJP government in Parliament whether it would investigate the role of a tech app in spreading misinformation during the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests.