What BJP badly needs is a vokkaliga (Gowda) base. GT Gowda can easily fill in that place. However, I don't think he can win the election but certainly succeed in splitting the Gowda votes helping Congress win the seat. If Gowda base is gone what else is there for Deve Gowda ?. He can then take political sanyas. If BJP wants to come to power it has to shed its image of Brahmin-Lingayath party.
RE:G.T. Deve Gowda is a prize catch
by neetha on Dec 04, 2007 11:42 PM Permalink
Sanjay, Do you which party has more number MLA's from SC/ST and OBC -- it is BJP not Congress. Just being a Brahmin-Lingayath party cannot win elections. It has lots of support from backward and tribes in north Karnataka. Example is Bellary where SriRamula belongs to backward tribes. Out of 30 SC/ST reserved seats in the state, BJP won 16 seats.
