In the BJP’s often dismal self assessment of its dismal expansion in the southern States, the one bright spark used to be its success in Karnataka. Events in the last few months show that the party now has a Karnataka-sized problem, just less than a year before polls in the State.
Manifest reasons
The murder of Harsha Jingade, a Bajrang Dal cadre on February 20 in Shivamogga and lately the murder of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) member Praveen Nettaru in Dakshina Kannada district on July 26 has set off a flood of recriminations against the ruling BJP from within the party cadre.
