Gearing up for battle: The BJP is determined to win Karnataka again

With the Jana Sankalpa Yatra covering backward districts such as Raichur and Ballari, the BJP embarked on a house-to-house contact programme

With four months to go before the Karnataka elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has hit the ground running with public meetings addressed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and many others. The Jana Sankalpa Yatra, traversing backward districts such as Raichur and Ballari, was underway and, alongside, the BJP embarked on a house-to-house contact programme.

Its focus was on the Old Mysuru region in the south and central Karnataka if it was to cross the hump and touch a majority, which eluded the BJP since its first serious shot at power in 2008, when it was two short of