Karnataka | Regaining momentum

Chief curate Siddaramaiah capitalises connected the Congress's bypoll occurrence to tackle governmental challenges and rebuild nationalist trust. Now, helium needs to execute his ambitious improvement plans

VICTORY SPARK | Siddaramaiah during the Congress’s ‘Jana Kalyana Samavesha’ successful Hassan, Dec. 5 | Photographs: PTI

December is erstwhile authorities officials and their departments astatine Vidhana Soudha successful Bengaluru battalion up for a two-week sojourn successful the bluish metropolis of Belagavi, 500-odd km away. There, a replica of Karnataka’s stately secretariat—the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha—hosts the wintertime league of the authorities legislature. On December 6, precocious into the last Friday evening earlier this displacement of venue, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was occupied with meetings astatine his residence successful Bengaluru arsenic helium prepared to look the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Opposition successful the House. The time before, helium flexed his governmental muscles with a monolithic rally successful Hassan, the stronghold of the Janata Dal (Secular) oregon JD(S). Essentially, Karnataka’s ruling Congress is cashing successful connected the momentum gained from its cleanable expanse of the caller assembly bypolls. For Siddaramaiah, this triumph couldn’t person travel astatine a amended time.