Many people think the outcome of the Karnataka election will make a difference to, and in, the 2019 general election. This is despite the fact that Karnataka has only 28 Lok Sabha seats. It is, therefore, by any reckoning, politically a relatively small state.
But if you remind people who are promoting this theory of this basic fact, they hark back to the Haryana assembly election of 1987. That too was held in the month of May and in that too the Congress, which was seen as all powerful after its 415 victory in the general election of 1984, was roundly defeated. That defeat, it ...
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First Published: Sun, May 06 2018. 08:45 IST
