A sporting chance in Karnataka

Mr Siddaramaiah may have turned 75 but has lost none of the parry, cut and thrust of public speaking that makes many in the Assembly smile when he speaks

So far, interventions by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in leadership disputes in the Congress’s state units have not exactly yielded optimal results. In Punjab, foisting Navjot Sidhu on the Congress there led to a vertical split in the state unit of the party and enabled the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to strike deep root where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was no competition and the Shiromani Akali Dal was widely discredited. The Congress wrested defeat from the jaws of victory in the last Assembly elections as a result. In Chhattisgarh, the truce between Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and T S