The Lingayat community will be appeased if the next chief minister is also a Lingayat.
In the course of his various tenures, Yediyurappa made many adversaries. Bommai, by contrast, knows the Opposition well and has many friends, cutting across parties -- he is, after all, only a 2008 BJP entrant.
Tourism Minister Anand Singh and Municipal Administration and Small Scale Industries' Minister N Nagaraj (MTB) have openly expressed displeasure over their portfolio, and have sought "weighty" ones.
The BJP won 12 of 15 seats on which bypolls were held. Congress could win only two.
'The results show that he is the best person to manage individuals in the party.'
Success in Karnataka's assembly polls will hinge on two factors: Drop a large number of incumbent MLAs and project Modi and not the state leaders, least of all Bommai.
The chief minister, who had on Wednesday expanded his new cabinet by inducting 29 ministers, had played it safe by and large retaining old faces, as 23 of them were Ministers in the previous Yediyurappa cabinet, while six were new.
In a move that could trigger a fresh confrontation, the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Karnataka on Wednesday asked Governor H R Bhardwaj to drop the proceedings initiated on a petition seeking sanction to prosecute Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and Home Minister R Ashoka in connection with alleged land scams.
Yeddyurappa would take the oath alone as the chief minister and once the majority is proved on the floor of the assembly, cabinet members would be inducted.
'Modiji and Amit Shahji should see my work.' 'Everybody gives me a lot of respect.' 'National leaders should see that.'
Radhika Ramaseshan reports on why the Karnataka chief minister risked crossing swords with his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, and its ideological wellspring, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Karnataka, by reposing its faith in BSY, remains a Hindutva stronghold, reports R Rajagopalan.
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