Why Karnataka polls 2018 will be no repeat of 2013 success for Siddaramaiah

Once called 'Sleepy Ramaiah' by many in his own party, Siddaramaiah transformed Congress with a combination of social justice and distributive justice tools and ideas he begged, borrowed or stole

Midway through Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s term, which began in 2013, a television channel commissioned a survey – “If elections were held tomorrow, what would be the outcome?” C-Fore, the agency that conducted the survey announced that the Congress party could take as many as 120 to 132 seats in the 224-seat state Assembly. The channel that had commissioned it would not believe the results, so it decided not to telecast the survey, leaving it to C-Fore to make the results public.

But, surely, you have to concede that the outcome was unexpected – both because of who Siddaramaiah is