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Political Line | The high command and ground realities

National parties channel centralised leadership, attempting to keep State leaders ‘in check’, but they run the risk of losing touch with the pulse of the people on ground. Read more about this Political Line Newsletter on The Hindu.

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Graft allegations: SC stays Lokayukta probe against former Karnataka CM Yediyurappa

Karnataka High Court had restored the corruption complaint, following which, Mr. Yediyurappa had moved the Supreme Court in a special leave petition.

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BJP sets up three teams for Karnataka ground assessment

Yeddyurappa has been roped in to help in the task of the team that will be working with Nalin Kateel

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#KarnatakaFloorTest: DK Shivkumar, the man behind the manoeuvres

Within hours after BS Yeddyurappa resigned, a beaming Rahul Gandhi emerged in what was his first press conference since the party’s embarrassing performance in the Karnataka Assembly elections. The optics of the press conference is not lost on anyone — the Congress president had practically gone underground since the day…

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#KarnatakaFloorTest: What led to Yeddyurappa’s knockout

Two hours before the floor test was to happen, the narrative on TV stations started changing. That was the first indication that the BJP had thrown in the towel. Anchors started pushing the line that the BJP high command was not too pleased with BS Yeddyurappa’s efforts to get a…

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Everything there’s to know about the nataka in Karnataka

It was a bitterly fought election. A campaign full of rhetoric from all sides, a random pre-poll move to divide the Lingayat vote bank which seems to have failed miserably, a carpet-bombing advertisement spree, a premature celebration which has now turned into a dank meme, a dark horse regional party doing much better than predicted and then, finally, a…

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Revealed: How the Congress-JDS deal was cracked

It was sometime late on Sunday that contact was first established between New Delhi and Malleswaram. This neighbourhood in the north-western part of Bengaluru is where the Janata Dal (Secular) patriarch, HD Deve Gowda, lives. The Congress had reached out to him because by then, a day after voting on…

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#KarnatakaElections: Politics of privilege driving Lingayat movement?

In Karnataka, the Lingayats are fighting a battle to get the status of a separate religious community. They claim that the religion of the followers of 12th century philosopher Basavanna should be recognised as Lingayatism.

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#KarnatakaElections: Where some sons have risen, some set and others got eclipsed

Darshan Puttannaiah would have been sitting on the other side of the globe in Denver, US. Instead, he is traversing the length and breadth of Melkote constituency in Mandya district, contesting this Karnataka election as the candidate of Swaraj India.

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How the humble karyakarta can transform governance in India

Full disclosure: This column invites pieces from people across political parties. Please check the bio for the author’s political affiliations.

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‘We can’t separate Reddy and Sriramulu,’ says Udupi MP Shobha Karandlaje

It took two days of persuasion for Udupi Member of Parliament and Bharatiya Janata Party Karnataka secretary Shobha Karandlaje to agree to speak to Newslaundry. In the course of the conversation, she accused incumbent Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of being power hungry. Karandlaje also defended jailbird Janardhan Reddy’s move to campaign…

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Badami’s Hope of Deliverance

There are about 15 men and women who have lined up to collect their ration quota of kerosene in Paarvati hamlet in Badami constituency. Only three houses have a gas connection which means three litres of kerosene at Rs 25 a litre is the mainstay of almost every kitchen here.

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