MLAs have slammed the party’s family-centric politics. Experts, however, say that JD(S)’s challenges began way before the latest loss in its stronghold.
This is the 3rd loss for Nikhil Kumaraswamy. Yogeeshwara, who won by 25,000+ votes, had defected from BJP to Congress ahead of bypolls, challenging the Deve Gowda family in stronghold.
Amid struggles due to lockdown and influx of Chinese toys, Channapatna artisans were expecting support. But the decision to set up a toy cluster elsewhere has angered them.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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