Hubballi, (Karnataka) May 10 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday offered a special pooja with his family at Anjaneya (Hanuman) temple in Ashok Nagar before casting his vote for the Assembly polls.
While the ruling BJP, riding on the Modi juggernaut, wants to break a 38-year-old jinx Karnataka has never voted the incumbent party to power since 1985, the Congress is hoping for a morale booster victory.
Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday hit out at Karnataka Congress president D K Shivakumar over his promise to construct Lord Hanuman temples in the state.
All the issues around which the grand old party wanted to fight the May 10 assembly elections have been put on the backburner as party state president DK Shivakumar in damage control mode took up a temple run.
Lord Hanuman has taken centre stage in poll-bound Karnataka as the Congress went on the defensive and on Thursday promised to construct and renovate Hanuman temples across the.