K'taka: Sidda's ‘secular’ missile finally backfires
Congress legislature party leader Siddaramaiah’s gambit of fielding a Muslim candidate to expose a seemingly tacit agreement between JD(S) and BJP and expose the regional party’s no-so-secular credentials didn’t quite go to plan.The former CM had taken the lead in the Rajya Sabha campaign and got the party’s high command to field a second candidate – one for which the party did not have enough votes to ensure a win.