The Congress cannot rest on its oars in Karnataka even if it gets, as predicted by several exit polls, a clear majority in the state assembly. Its real test will be in the Lok Sabha polls when the electorate will vote for the next government at the Centre. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, May 6, 2013 at 6:32 pm
Filed under india · Tagged assembly polls, bjp, congress, Deve Gowda, exit polls, hindustan times, Karnataka elections, Lok sabha polls, Narendra Modi, news, Separated at Birth, UPA, Vinod Sharma, Yeddyurappa
The Dinesh Trivedi episode has again driven home the grave administrative and constitutional shortcomings that bedevil mixed regimes. The arrangement devolves disproportionate powers to parties with tiny numbers in parliament, dwarfs the office of the Prime Minister and makes political allegiance more inviolable than allegiance to the Constitution. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, March 19, 2012 at 7:18 pm
Filed under india · Tagged Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Bal Thackeray, Charan Singh, coalition government, Deve Gowda, Dinesh Trivedi, Inder Gujaral, Jayalalithaa, Lalu Yadav, Mamata Banerjee, Morarji Desai, Mulayam Singh Yadav, sharad yadav, Sitaram Kesri, SP, Trinamool Congress, UPA-2, VP Singh
I often wonder what our political class is doing to its image and credibility among the people? An exhibition of its very commonplace sordid ways is what the Indian Express so tellingly branded as the natak in Karnataka. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 6:44 pm
Filed under india · Tagged Assembly, bjp, Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, congress, Deve Gowda, High Court, Janata Dal (Secular), JD (S), Karnataka, Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj, politics, President's rule, Raj Bhawan, Speaker K G Bopaiah