The Assembly election results in Karnataka has spawned many narratives and conclusions about the voting pattern of various caste groupings, the relevance of personality-driven politics, the extent to which religious polarisation and hate propaganda can mobilise voters and so on.
However, one issue that is being discussed is how former IAS officer (Karnataka cadre) Sasikanth Senthil, a native of Tamil Nadu, who quit the civil services and joined the Congress party in 2019 and was appointed chairperson of the Congress war room in Karnataka, got the better of BJP State president and former IPS officer K. Annamalai in the recently concluded election.
Speaking to The Hindu, Mr. Sasikanth said though he understood the comparison, he felt he was part of a bigger system.
