Newsmaker: Speculation over Karnataka CM Bommai's continuance resurfaces

Speculation over Bommai's continuance resurfaces, but BJP brass unlikely to do an Uttarakhand in Karnataka

Basavaraj Bommai is again an object of ire. The only difference is this time, the Karnataka chief minister (CM) is under siege from his own party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh fraternity.

The attack is ironical, considering that the better part of his year-long tenure was expended on burnishing his pro-Sangh leanings and underplaying his Socialist provenance — an exercise he accomplished at great cost to his inheritance as the son of Somappa Rayappa Bommai, a former Karnataka CM who was an architect of the Janata Party in the state and a champion of federalism.