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When Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced he was contesting from two constituencies, Chamundeshwari and Badami, his friends asked him why.
He explained somewhat elliptically: “We are all chief ministers. Of all of us, I consider Jayalalithaa the strongest CM that India has ever had – she never had to explain her decisions, never had to answer to anyone. Here, if I put a foot wrong, my esteemed colleagues will go rushing to the (party) high command. Who knows what might happen after that?”
His friends knew who the reference was to — D K Shivakumar, the Vokkaliga leader with a direct line to
