Year in review: Lotus blooms in Karnataka again within a year of withering

Stalwarts like Deve Gowda, veteran Congress leaders like Kharge, K H Muniyappa and Veerappa Moily tasted defeat

Within a year after it withered, the lotus bloomed again in Karnataka in 2019, when BJP strongman B S Yediyurappa ushered in the saffron party's second government in two years following high octane political drama that saw the fall of the JD(S)-Congress coalition government.

City-headquartered ISRO's near entry into the history books with its yet-so-close yet-so-far Chandrayaan-2 mission, the Infosys controversy and various high-profile deaths, including that of billionaire tycoon V G Siddhartha dotted the 2019 calendar in the state.

The year that began with a campaign blitz for the Lok Sabha polls that saw a saffron sweep eventually ended