KARNATAKA REPLACES HARYANA IN DUBIOUS RECORD
K Raveendran
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2019-07-24 10:25
Karnataka is the story of a beautiful dream gone sour. Over a year ago, when HD Kumaraswamy’s Janata Dal (Secular) and Congress came together to thwart the BJP bid to form a government as the saffron party failed to secure a majority, it was as though all the parties opposed to Modi had joined hands. The grand photograph, taken at the swearing in of Kumaraswamy as the chief minister, showed Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati, Mamata Banerjee, Sharad Pawar, Sitaram Yechury holding hands in a rare camaraderie, and it soon became the mascot of opposition unity. The optics from Bengaluru suggested imageries of a cornered Narendra Modi, with no chance of making it for a second time in 2019.