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Lingayat leaders of the BJP have raised the pitch for unleashing the "Lingayat CM" campaign in poll-bound Karnataka to counter the Congress' narrative to brand the ruling party as "anti-Lingayat".
BJP on Monday announced its candidate for the Hubballi-Dharwad Central seat hours after former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar joined the Congress as the electioneering picked up momentum in the southern state with the nomination process to end in two days.
Congress is vital for the political fabric of the country but must strengthen its state-level units to remain relevant The last few days saw a series of political earthquakes of low magnitude causing some shock waves in the national capital as well as in Kerala. It all began with the release of
Jagadish Shettar, who quit the BJP after he was denied a ticket for Karnataka Assembly elections, joined the Congress on Monday.
After prominent Lingayat leader Jagadish Shettar defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and joined the Congress ahead of the upcoming Karnataka assembly elections, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said the former Karnataka chief minister would be used and later thrown out by Congress.