Key Points
As the Karnataka Assembly election campaign draws to a close, it is clear that caste narratives and calculations have overwhelmed the real issues confounding the people of the State for the most part...
While the Opposition Congress did talk of price rise, the economic burden people face, and corruption, the caste plank the BJP allegedly sidelining Lingayats and its counter to that, or the KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar appealing for a chance for a Vokkaliga Chief Minister, and so on has often overtaken the former set of narratives over the last two months...
As the Congress attacked the BJP over its alleged sidelining of Lingayats including B.S. Yediyurappa the BJP hit back by reminding people of the alleged ill-treatment of former Lingayat Chief Ministers S. Nijalingappa and Veerendra Patil by the Congress, and challenged the Congress to declare that it would make a Lingayat CM if it came to power...
The Vokkaligas and Lingayats seem to feel they, being the dominant land-owning communities of the State, have a legitimate claim to Chief Ministership, said political scientist Muzaffar Assadi...
The ongoing Hindutva experiment in the State by BJP wants to tame the claims of Vokkaligas and Lingayats to power, even as it wants them to subsume their caste identity and vote based on Hindutva..
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