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Bangalore now Bengaluru had made Karnataka famous in the past with hospitable and friendly people. Karnataka or for the matter, Bengaluru, today is more known for its resort politics that began sometime in the 80s. That is why resorts in Bengaluru have mushroomed in view of the nature of politics as the need becomes pronounced every time there is a vote to be taken as MLAs have to be herded together and only return on voting or D-Day to protect them from being hijacked or poached. Herding of MLAs to resorts or even five-star hotels has unfortunately become a habit that is necessitated by the need to splurge on the greedy and corrupt law makers. Karnataka legislators may have learned about the tricks of the trade from politicians in neighbouring states- Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. The lesson in resort politics was practiced in 2006 when H.D.Kumaraswamy ditched the Congress and joined hands with the BJP. During the crisis, MLAs were herded in hotels or resorts. The lesson was first taught in 1984, when the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh legislators were brought to Bengaluru by the legendary N T Rama Rao, when he had to face a trust vote and for one month, his friend then Karnataka chief minister Ramakrishna Hegde accommodated the legislators at a resort in Devanahalli. Ext, Congress chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh of Maharashtra packed his MLAs off to Bengaluru in 2002, till he won his trust vote. Karnataka politicians made their maiden foray into resort politics when in 2004, political parties began herding their MLAs into resorts for meeting, decision making and “to keep their flock together”. After the fractured verdict in 2004, JDS herded its MLAs to resorts since they were being enticed both BJP and Congress. Again in 2007 H.D.Kumaraswamy ditched Congress during which the JDS legislators were herded in a Goa resort. The BJP in 2008, Yeddyurappa formed the first BJP government after engineering defections. He herded JDS and Congress MLAs to resorts and managed to obtain simple majority even though BJP won only 110 as against 80 of the Congress. Under mining baron and MLC G Janardhan Reddy’s leadership, the independents, then several Congress and JD(S) MLAs were hosted at resorts. The latter lot were induced to resign their seats and contest again on BJP tickets, funded by the party, a method called “Operation Kamala”, which the BJP used elsewhere including Gujarat. After the 2018 assembly election, BJP became the single largest party, getting 36.5% of vote share for 104 seats, but falling short of a majority (114). Congress got 38.14% of vote share for its 80 seats while the Janata Dal (Secular) of the Gowdas won 37 seats with 18.3% of vote share. Resort politics started when differences within Congress led to factionalism which BJP tried to exploit to bring down the Congress-JDS coalition government under “Operation Kamala”. To save its flock, BJP herded its MLAs to a five star luxury hotel in Gurugram. Congress attacked BJP for the humongous cost of resort politics. However, soon even Congress followed by herding its flock to a resort. It is time that the Election Commission of India wake up to such a travesty of parliamentary practices and stop the herding tamasha once and for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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