When Yeddyurappa spoke against faith profiling and earned kudos from Oppn

Shobha Karandlaje, Yediyurappa's political confidante and Udupi-Chikmagalur MP, led the anti-Muslim chorus

Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa went with the general tide running through the southern states, spoke up against faith profiling in the aftermath of the Tablighi Jamaat (TJ) episode, and earned kudos from the Opposition. In the process, he risked crossing swords with his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and its ideological wellspring, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

The TJ’s large congregation in Delhi’s Nizamuddin, attended by the sect’s adherents from all over India and the world, became a major controversy after several participants were found infected with coronavirus and became vectors among larger communities. While the TJ