“It was out of the question for me to vote for the BJP. But in 2008, when Basavaraj Bommai was given the ticket, I clearly remember that he stood outside my shop and said, ‘Don’t look at the party. Vote for me as I will work for you.’ And I did vote for him.”
That’s Majid Khan, a shopkeeper in Haveri district’s Shiggaon assembly segment, where chief minister Basavaraj Bommai is eyeing his fourth consecutive victory – when Karnataka holds elections for 224 assembly seats on May 10.
