BD NarayankarBengaluru, Sept. 14 -- Politics, like cricket, has a habit of changing the scoreboard before the match is over. In Karnataka BJP, Vijayendra Yediurappa's 170-km Ballari padayatra appears to have done just that - turning what looked like a straightforward question of replacing the state president in November into a more complicated calculation for the party's central leadership.
The question is no longer merely whether Vijayendra will get another term. It is whether the central leadership will reward a leader who has taken the fight to the Congress on the ground, or use the November organisational exercise to reset a state unit still troubled by factionalism.
The Ballari march may not have been Vijayendra's final examination. ...