While candidates have hit the campaign trail for the Lok Sabha elections, several local leaders and grassroots-level workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal (Secular), parties that have struck an alliance ahead of polls, are confused and anxious about the prospect of losing their identity and political constituency.
Reversal of situation
For the JD(S) workers, especially in the Vokkaliga-dominated districts, the situation has reversed from what it was last time around. If they were anxious in 2019 since the party had entered into an understanding with Congress, with which the JD(S) had formed the government after a fractured mandate in 2018, it is now in alliance with the BJP.
