Battleground Karnataka: BJP manifesto may look to restore Lokayukta's power

Ahead of the Karnataka polls, BJP has completed an elaborate and structured exercise for drafting its manifesto but it still has to firm up its position on corruption and land acquisition

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took nearly six months and 220 rounds of consultations in Karnataka's 224 Assembly constituencies to put in place its manifesto for the state elections that is expected to be unveiled in the last week of April at Bengaluru. "It is an unprecedented exercise, at least for a state," said P Muralidhar Rao, the BJP general secretary and Karnataka minder who oversaw the endeavour with lead-off persons CN Ashwath Narayan, the legislator from Bengaluru's Malleshwaram constituency, and N Ravi Kumar, Karnataka BJP's general secretary. 

The BJP made up its mind to not allow its manifesto-making to