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Big Picture
Through the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) hectic Karnataka election campaign, the State unit has come through emaciated. The party’s internal machinery works in a way that puts all credit of victory in the hands of the central leadership but pins the onus of defeat on the State unit.
