How Congress does a BJP in Karnataka

If the party chooses to play the way the game is played in India, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah shows them how to do it

In Karnataka, the Congress does to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) what is done to the Congress by the BJP elsewhere. The BJP is kept off balance on issues it monopolises in other parts of India.

On the issue of nationalism, it has been made to squirm by the Congress in Karnataka. On March 8, the Congress government here decided to release a flag for the state. This came after the ‘recommendation’ of a committee (there was no popular demand for a flag) set up by the government. No other state, except of course Jammu and Kashmir, has a flag