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| Does PM Narendra Modi have a worthy opponent in Siddaramaiah? | | | Agencies
Karnataka’s forthcoming assembly election has not only become a challenge for political leaders of all the three major parties in the state, but also for national leaders of the Congress and BJP.
But the question remains, how a state assembly election can pose a challenge to either the Congress or BJP at the national level?
This is the first major election that Rahul Gandhi is spearheading after taking over the reins of the Congress party. For BJP, especially Prime Minister Narendra Modi and national president Amit Shah, wresting power from a firmly entrenched Congress in its last southern bastion, would provide the necessary momentum for a bigger battle in 2019.Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will have to prove a thing or two. He has to contend with the truism of no ruling party returning to power since 1985. Along with this three-decade-old jinx, the CM has a formidable twin challenge from BJP’s former CM and Lingahyat strongman BS Yeddyurappa and the Modi-Shah combine that has decimated almost all its opponents.
To make matters worse, the third major political player JD(S) under the indefatigable leadership of former PM HD Deve Gowda and his wily ex-CM HD Kumaraswamy has tied up with Mayawati’s BSP to become the king-maker if not the king.
What makes the contest from BSY with Modi-Shah and the well-oiled BJP-Sangh Parivar network and the Vokkalinga-Dalit partnership of JD(S)-BSP that much more intense for the Karnataka CM and the Congress is that there is little to expect from the party’s national leadership. In fact, Rahul Gandhi’s vote-gathering abilities are suspect as can be judged from the almost gleeful response from the BJP leaders notwithstanding the party’s fine performance in the Gujarat assembly polls. |
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