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For what can the epoch making victory of the BJP opening doors to it to the South of Vindhyas be attributed to? In one sentence it is the triumph of the party’s superior electoral strategy and its ability to sell itself to the people against all odds.

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Can the Congress make a dramatic come back in the third and last phase of elections to the remaining 69 seats? Or will BJP be able to retain or even improve on its performance of 2004 in this region? These are the two major questions one faces with the last round of polling just some hours away. There are a few other questions which are also important. Like how much will the BSP be able to make a dent in the calculations of the other parties, as it is in this region that it has some seat winning potential?

By Girish Nikam (गिरीश निकम)

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When the BJP was given that shock therapy by Janata Dal(S) supremo H.D.Deve Gowda who managed to persuade his son, H.D.Kumaraswamy last November, not to keep up the promise to hand over power after 20 months, there was glee in the party camp. But it was tempered down to quite an extent, when its Chief Ministerial hopeful, B.S.Yeddyurappa almost ignored saner advice from party leadership and embarked on that one week disaster of a Government, before being pulled down. Some of them at that time had felt that the anxiety displayed by Yeddyurappa to grab power at all cost, could have deprived them of the sympathy factor.

By Girish Nikam (गिरीश निकम)

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With just two more days to go for the campaigning to end for the third and final phase of polling for the Karnataka Assembly, the dominant thought in the mind after having travelled the length and breadth of the State is, has Congress tripped in capitalizing on its potential.
This thought has only grown as one has travelled from the districts in Southern Karnataka where the first phase of elections took place, into the third phase. It is interesting to note that it has also coincided with the increasing support one has witnessed towards the BJP as one progressed into the final phase. The other discernible feature is the progressive decline of the Janata Dal(S) through the three phases. The polling percentages have also increased from the first to the second phase.

By Girish Nikam (गिरीश निकम)

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Will the BJP be able to improve on its impressive 2004 performance in the second phase where polling has got over for the 66 seats? Around this question lies the answer to that fond hope of people as well as the BJP and Congress about a clear verdict this time around.
The 66 seats which went to poll today spread over different geographies from the plains in Bellary to the forests of Malnad to the coastal Mangalore, turned out to be a boon for the BJP. Unlike the first phase seats, where BJP was in the third place in 2004, here they had emerged ahead of both Congress and Janata Dal(S) with a record 33 seats. Congress was a poor second with just 19 seats and the JD(S) with only 12 seats.