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Fraught transition: BJP decided to replace 23 MLAs in Karnataka elections

A decision that has put local leaders in a tough spot

Basavaraj Bommai (left) with Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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Basavaraj Bommai (left) with Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Vikram Gopal New Delhi

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Transition has been the watchword in the Karnataka unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2021, the year it asked then chief minister and Lingayat leader B S Yediyurappa to make way for Basavaraj Bommai.

Indeed, the advancing age of many veterans in the state, the only one in the south that it has administered by itself, has been a source of anxiety for some time.

The next big step in the transition was to be the elections to the 224 seats in the Assembly, scheduled to be held on May 10. Towards this end, the party,