Six months ago, it looked like the Congress government in Karnataka of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah would be easily voted out when it went to the polls. After all, what campaign could Siddaramaiah conceivably craft that could dent the all-conquering narrative built up by Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2013?
Today, it looks like he has found one. He might still lose, but in his choice lies the future of Indian politics — and it’s one that, however inevitable, should worry us. On June 6, the Karnataka government set up a committee “to examine the
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