Targeting Congress leader Siddaramaiah in his home constituency, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday asked the people to decide between a leader who is about to retire.
The two dominant castes of Karnataka Vokkaligas and Lingayats are on opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to party preferences, NDTV's new opinion poll in partnership with Lokniti-CSDS has found.
Ahead of the Karnataka Assembly elections, a survey conducted in the poll bound state showed the two dominant castes Vokkaligas and Lingayats are on opposite ends of the spectrum. The survey found that about 34 percent respondent supporting the Congress while 36 per cent favouring the JD(S).
Few may remember Veerendra Patil today, but his unceremonious dismissal as Karnataka chief minister in 1990 paved the way for BJP’s first inroads into the state in the 1990s, with the state’s influential Lingayat voters