How Siddaramaiah was felled by his own imagination in Karnataka elections

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cheap jordans sale There too, it was about the splintering of the backward subcastes within the Lingayats. The formula at work here too was something that was driving the AHINDA imagination. Urs, too, through his reservation policy had benefitted a number of neglected subcastes among the Lingayats. It is not that this cheap jordans sale effort backfired, but it came rather hurriedly and only a few months before the elections were called. It will remain to be exploited as a political keg in the future, when Siddaramaiah, like Urs, will be regarded retrospectively. cheap jordans sale

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