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Bommai in unstable times

As chief minister, Mr Bommai is getting very little organisational support

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Aditi Phadnis
Union Home Minister Amit Shah went to Karnataka on May 3 for a sports event. During that visit, he was supposed to meet the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) core committee, and Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai was to host all Cabinet ministers, MLAs, and MPs, for lunch. The chief minister had envisaged the whole event as a power shot in the arm for himself, beleaguered as he is, though he hasn’t even completed a year in office.

He needn’t have taken the trouble. BJP Organising Secretary B L Santhosh arrived in Bengaluru a day before and, speaking to party workers at Mysuru,
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