Karnataka Assembly polls: Gowda, Siddaramaiah trying to better each other

Congress leader has also taken the fight to his erstwhile mentor Deve Gowda, and family

A village road with a divider is unusual enough. But a five-storied under construction new temple, solar street lights, a government residential complex and the village park strewn with remnants of an evening party make for definite signs that Haradanahalli, in Holenarsipura taluk of Hassan district, is no ordinary village.

Haradanahalli is where the story of the most influential political clan of Karnataka, which is currently fighting one of its toughest political battles, started with the birth of Haradanahalli Doddegowda, or HD, Deve Gowda in 1933 in the house of a humble paddy cultivator.

With the family patriarch ageing, his