svenkat wrote:Ananth Kumar who have won 5 times from same constituency and done zilch for it need to loose.
What should he have done,its an honest question.
As an MP, his performance has been decent, but not great. He did get several projects sanctioned for Bangalore South, and has used his MP funds honestly.
Though I am not an Anant kumar admirer,its people like Anant Kumar who built BJP in south KA,when the party was an unknown entity(well almost) in the linguistic south.Is the above statement correct? nageshksji might know better.
He built up the party, particularly in rural Karnataka. The social base that underpinned the BJP victory from 1998 to 2008 was LiBra (Lingayat-Brahmin). The man who was principally responsible for rallying the Brahmins to the BJP cause, particularly in rural Karnataka, the man who was the Brahmin face of the party, was Anant Kumar. He built the organisation that is still standing the BJP in good stead.
His problem was that he got greedy and started playing the old nepotism game (but to be fair, Yediyurappa is equally guilty of the same). His joining LKA (and becoming one of the D4) to fix Yediyurappa has rubbed many people wrong, and they wish him gone. But his departure will be a serious loss to the BJP. I hope he does not lose. He is infinitely better than all other options in Bangalore South, certainly a scum like Nandan Nilekani.