Bengaluru, April 9 -- There are mornings when elections arrive in the familiar garb of queues, inked fingers and the low hum of administrative efficiency, and then there are mornings when something unexpected wanders in, quite literally on four legs, and steals the spotlight.
In Bagalkot on Thursday, it was a sheep, decked in party flags, that walked into the frame with Congress candidate Umesh Meti, turning an otherwise routine act of voting into a moment that lingered longer than the ballot itself.
Meti's quiet, almost pastoral gesture, shaped by his shepherd community roots, stood in contrast to the sterile choreography of the polling booth. It was less performance than instinct, yet it became spectacle all the same, the kind that trav...