ASSEMBLY-ELECTIONS
Karnataka Election Results: Congress cracks the victory code, BJP’s double engine strategy blunted
With this win, Congress would have learned valuable lessons like the importance of unity and focusing on local bread and butter issues. BJP persisting with its national leadership fronting state assembly campaigns is yielding diminishing returns
POLITICS
Karnataka Elections: With Lingayats pushing back, BJP struggles to subsume caste identities within Hindutva narrative
Karnataka Elections 2023: Bolstered by its 2019 sweep, BJP replaced Yediyurappa with Bommai, and promoted Hindutva narratives on hijab, Tipu Sultan, etc. But the Hindutva tilt hasn’t yielded dividends and the strategy to reduce the party’s overdependence on the Lingayat community came close to backfiring
