Identify the disease, then cure it - BJP must seriously introspect whether raking up corruption issues alone will yield the desired results in the next Lok Sabha election. After all, many tainted leaders have been re-elected to the Karnataka House.

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IDENTIFY THE DISEASE, THEN CURE IT

By K. G. Suresh
Op-Ed
The Pioneer
http://www.dailypioneer.com
Monday, May 13, 2013

The Bharatiya Janata Party must seriously introspect
whether raking up corruption issues alone will yield the
desired results in the next Lok Sabha election. After
all, many tainted leaders have been re-elected to the
Karnataka House

Even as the much expected result of the Karnataka
Assembly election was trickling in, political analysts
and commentators were writing obituaries of the ruling
BJP not only in its first southern citadel but also the
entire region beyond the Vindhyas. Some of these very
observers who had projected the party’s win in Gujarat as
a verdict on the Chief Minister and a local phenomenon,
were describing Karnataka as a reflection of the changing
mood and perception of the country’s electorate, a
referendum of sorts on the UPA2 Government,
notwithstanding the corruption charges, inflation and
policy paralysis on all fronts.

Undoubtedly, the Congress, which is under attack both
within and outside Parliament over corruption charges,
won decisively, defeating its tormenter at the Centre.

Facing flak, the BJP leaders sought to take a moral high
ground that the party lost because it removed BS
Yeddyurappa, and the dared the Congress to hold the
general election now — for which both parties are
apparently ill-prepared now.

However, it would be naďve to blame anti-incumbency alone
for BJP’s debacle in Karnataka. It was a combination of
factors including the sympathy wave following the
betrayal by Janata Dal (Secular) over transfer of power,
the building of Lingayats as a solid vote-bank by Mr
Yeddyurappa, mining barons such as Mr Janardhana Reddy
joining hands with the party et al which had contributed
to the saffron party’s kitty. None of these factors was
with the BJP this time around.

As for the Congress, it benefited from the TINA (There Is
No Alternative) factor. With the people of the State
getting disillusioned over instability, repeated trials
of strength and leaders rallying around legislators
through horse trading, and the perceived focus on
survival rather than governance, the only options in the
Opposition were the Congress and the JD(S).

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