Is the Karnataka unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the throes of a caste war?
The day (October 2016) former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa was acquitted of charges of corruption by the Special Court, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), there were widespread celebrations. “Satyameva Jayate,” tweeted Yeddyurappa. Hardly surprising, considering the gravity of the charges made by the CBI in the case, which had cost Yeddyurappa his chief ministership in 2011. The CBI chargesheet against Yeddyurappa, his sons B Y Raghavendra and B Y Vijayendra and son-in-law Sohan Kumar, a Bellary-based private steel company, and the