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Speaking to reporters in Hubballi, Kateel said, "BJP is making efforts to win more seats in Old Mysore, a JDS stronghold. A lot of publicity work is being done and BJP is also calling star campaigners."
The two traditionally powerful caste groups, Lingayats and Vokkaligas, virtually controlled state politics between 1956 and 1972 and the L-V caste equation powered the Congress’s political hold over Karnataka until the mid-1970s
While the Congress is banking on an anti-incumbency wave that has worked since 1985, the ruling BJP hopes Prime Minister Narendra Modi's massive campaigning from April 29 will see it cross the halfway mark in the 224-member Assembly.
News18 travels through the Kanakapura constituency of Karnataka to understand how the high-profile fight between Karnataka Congress chief D K Shivakumar and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Karnataka minister R Ashoka is panning out
Significant among them are former BJP MLC Ayanur Manjunath, former BJP MLA MP Kumaraswamy, and former Congress MLC Raghu Achar.