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Bengaluru: The crowds burst into rapturous applause as Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant switched to Marathi at Karwar in Karnatakas Uttara Kannada district while he was accompanying BJP candidate Vishveswara Hegde Kageri for filing of nomination...
A star campaigner of the BJP for Karnataka, the Goa CM has been very active in Karnataka, accompanying candidates in regions that even have no Maratha connection, political observers say...
Political observers say the Goa CM was the key link that helped in formalising the alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the H.D.Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular), or JD(S)...
It was Sawant who convinced Deve Gowdas younger son and former Karnataka CM H.D.Kumaraswamy to meet with the BJP brass for hammering an alliance to take on the Congress in Karnataka, they say...
The two national parties the Congress and the BJP are also looking to cut into the communitys votes that are likely to swing towards the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samithi (MES), a separatist outfit that still commands influence over large chunks of the community in these parts of the state...
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