Karnataka CM says Congress govt forced to present revenue deficit budget due to previous BJP govt's fiscal indiscipline. The budget also announced Rs 4 lakh insurance for gig workers.
Vijayapura MLA & ex-CM trade barbs over Shivakumar's Friday visit to latter’s home. Party yet to name its state head & leader of opposition ahead of 3 July legislature session.
BJP has built a social coalition with a strong and credible base in Karnataka, but political representation from this coalition isn’t politically astute or skilled in governance.
Ministers who lost their seats include Deputy CM & Minister of Major-Medium Irrigation Govind Karjol, and V. Somanna, the Minister for Housing and Infrastructure Development.
Unlike other BJP-ruled states like Gujarat, Uttarakhand & UP, Karnataka was an exception as corruption became a major sticking point. Bommai govt faced strong anti-incumbency.
You don’t see any big billboards; there are no wall writings, very few flexes, and rarely do you spot a publicity vehicle. Elections have gone underground.
Congress’s strategy is to expose alleged shortcomings in governance. BJP, meanwhile, is doing what it does best — seat-by-seat micro-management while focussing on the PM’s appeal.
Messaging comes at a time when Panchamasalis, biggest sub-sect within Lingayats, have rejected Bommai's decision to split Muslim quota share equally between Lingayats & Vokkaligas.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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