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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prides itself on accomplishing generational leadership transitions fairly seamlessly, almost always. Stalwarts, such as Kalyan Singh, Shanta Kumar, and Keshubhai Patel — who became synonymous with an ideological strain or a state or a dominant caste and were regarded as invincible in their time — were shipped out once the exigency of demography and the challenges of the future demanded a qualitatively different leadership calibre. The changeover was cutthroat but the BJP coped with the fallout.
However, B S Yediyurappa, Karnataka chief minister, is another kettle of fish. He will be 80 when the state
