Karnataka assembly polls: BJP counting its chickens before they hatch?

By giving the ticket to Sriramulu, the party leadership has overruled its policy of not fielding MPs, except chief ministerial candidate Yeddyurappa, in the Assembly elections

Deputy CM in the offing

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced a chief minister for Karnataka — B S Yeddyurappa — should they win the election. But the latest is a demand that the party name a deputy chief minister. That person is an MP from Bellari constituency, B Sriramulu. The group pushing for this argues that this will be helpful for the BJP in wooing tribals and Dalits, for the upcoming Assembly elections.

Sriramulu, whose name was in the first list of 72 candidates from the party, has been asked to contest from Molakalmuru (Chitradurga) constituency. By giving the ticket