The Congress scored a thumping victory in Karnataka in state polls in May this year. In picking Siddaramaiah as chief minister, Congress junked its philosophy of picking “weak and manageable” leaders to head state governments out of fear that power in the hands of satraps would leave the leadership vulnerable to armtwisting and rebellion, as with the YSR-Jagan duo in Andhra Pradesh.
KARNATAKA ELECTION RESULTS
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