Secret ballot was held late Sunday night to get opinions of MLAs for deciding the next CM. Lingayat seers are demanding their own candidate other than Siddaramaiah & Shivakumar.
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.
Kudos to the Congress for maintaining an edge over BJP in public perception. The only solace for the BJP is that it’s out of power but not out of the state.
A Congress victory would show the path to a possible defeat for the BJP at the national level. The challenge for the opposition is to understand this path & stick to it.
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.
The distinctiveness of her writing is evident in her compositions—women, shudras, and atishudras are at the center. Her poetry challenges the aesthetics of 'modern' Marathi literature.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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