Comments on: What caused the BJP’s downfall?

By: Insane Lingappa

Insane Lingappa — Fri, 26 May 2023 23:46:45 +0000

Same person typing in different pseudoname and happened to be Sidda’s chela.. SOM should get hold of his ip address and ban forever.

By: Thirthahalli Eashwar

Thirthahalli Eashwar — Fri, 26 May 2023 07:15:31 +0000

I cannot understand why the SOM is paying Gauri Satya to write ths article, with no insightful analysis.
His article seems to have gathered the arguments well articulted in the Deccan Herald, the Indian Express as well as in the Times of India . good opinion pieces. All, he has done to get his fee , is to cut and paste those pieces of arguments for the win of the Congress and the defeat of the BJp.
The one important aspect, Gauri Satya missed ( like he always misses the womanising habits of Wadiyars and hence some of them rendered impotent, not because of some mythical curse!), is the C?ongress taking away Vokkkaliga voters from the JD(S), reducing that party as an orphan as Mr Ganapathy put it. the JD(S) votes collapsed.
THe Congress should do well to keep the Muslim voters on their side. This may mean,: naming the Mysore-Bangalore Highway as Tipu Highway, and creating the Tipu Iniversity at Srirangapatna. Whether you like him or hate him- Tipu Sultan was an effective and efficient ruler through Purnaiah, his Dewan. That indicated, Tipu recognised the merit. The British seemed to recognise this, and hence they approved and in fact instrumental in the appointments of :Purnaiah, Sir K Seshadri Iyer, Sir MV and Sir Mirza Ismail as Dewans.
Tipu Sultan was as much the heritage operson as Wadiyars. Indeed, he preserved all Hindu temples starting from the iconic temple of Srirangapatna, to Nanjangud and Chamundeshwari temples.

By: Jogekal Lingappa

Jogekal Lingappa — Fri, 26 May 2023 06:47:56 +0000

Hello Gauri Satya
Yedi was replaced by another Lingayat, Bommai, from the North Karnataka Lingayat belt, and he had a number of Lingayats in his cabinet. Besides, although, Siddaramaiah was the leader of the state Congress, it was the Vokkaliga Shivakumar who was the camapaign leader, and he did not hide his favouritism of Vokkaligas.
Hence, your very simplistic arguments of Lingayats defeats based on these prominent Linayat leaders being ignored do not wash, as for example, Shettar, who joined Congress was defeated. Lingayats simply did not vote for him in enough numbers.
Hence, your core analysys should have been focused only on the high cost of living and the Congress understanding the Voters’ misery and were ready to help with a package of support. Whether this package makes economic sense for the state did not matter. Indian voters like bribes, pure and simple, This package of support was a bribe. Voters were hammered with the corrupt BJP gobvernment, but yet, they were ready to vote forr the jailed money lauderer Shivakumar. Hence, the BJP government ‘s 40% commission message seemed to have only minimal effect.
Finally, I wonder whether you have no stock imaginative stories of Wadiyars and arguments about their rule, although the in reality the British rulled in India and Wadiyars were mere subordinates!

By: Raampur Ka Laxman!!

Raampur Ka Laxman!! — Fri, 26 May 2023 06:32:39 +0000

Corrections: chance , and apologies for some typos.

By: Raampur Ka Laxman!!

Raampur Ka Laxman!! — Fri, 26 May 2023 06:29:20 +0000

It appears that this self-styled senior journalist and the cheer leader for the Wadiyars, for once has focused on the topic of recent elections, where the BJP was routed. His analyses are at best mundane and even they do not articulate the reasons of the BJP defeat well.
I suggest, Gauri Satya to stick to his Wadiyars anecdotes nonsense.
His assessments starting from his electrician’s opinion to others like the constituencies’ based wins for Congress, where the Lingayat votes were split between the BJP and Congress were all documented already by various journalists.
What as usual Gauri Satya has ignored, is the effect of Civid-19 Pandemic, which devastated the lives of many families, in many cases, remving at a stroke the abilites of reasonably quick restoration of their fortunes, as the cost of lockdowns and reduction of earning power hit them hard. In Wetern countries, the governments sepped in and supported their citizens through various means like subsidising energy price and ensuring the price hikes of essential commodities were controlled downwards, and reimbursing the salaries of people who had to stay home during lockdowns and unable to work from home either due to the nature of their jobs or their inabikity having struck by the Covid-19 infection.
What is different in Mysore , and indeed in India is the reckless callouness of Modi and his band of corrupt rich politicians in power at the centre, and in Karnataka ignoring the plight of people, leaving them to tend themselves. The voters in Karnataka considered the BJP polkiticians out of touch with the maladies that have hit ordinary families. Here the Congress stepped in, be it the padayatra of Rahul Gandhi or the plethora of hustings by Congress leaders-the single message was that they-the Congress have listened to the voter plights and are ready to support them whatever it takes-hence their 5 initiatives.is that the BJP is consigned to the Party of Hindi zealots in the Hindi Belt of North India.
the seriousness of this BJP defeat
The chane of governments in the West-whether it is in Germany or in Australia, is due to this ‘caring leftist concerns’ of the suffering of their people. Hence people in the above contries voted for the left-of-centre parties. In Britain, the out of touch rich son-in-law of Infosys Murtys , Rishi Sunak the PM, who does not know what the hike of the cost of living means, and, who thought that his money would keep him in power is facing massive defeat in the next year general election. His party has already suffered hard-hitting defeats in the local council elections-the harbinger for what is in store for the rich boy of Indian origin in the next year general election. Again, the ‘leftist concerns’ of the Labour and similar left-of-centre parties, which promised to help more, are going to trounce, the ruling Conservative Party, led by this Murtys son-in-law.