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Mysore polls: Party-hoppers may change voting pattern
Published on Mon, May 05, 2008 at 16:23, Updated at Mon, May 05, 2008 in Nation section
Tags: Assembly Elections 2008, Karnataka , Mysore
CHANGING TRENDS: The story of split parties and votebanks of Mysore lie in the defections.
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Mysore (Karnataka): Mysore, which goes to polls on May 10, will witness a clash of personalities thanks to large-scale defections and party-hoppers could change voting patterns in this election.
Congress candidate from Varuna constituency S Siddaramaiah was perhaps the man who started it all. A Janata Party loyalist for 25 years, he jumped ship to the Congress as soon as he was ousted by the JDS supremo.
“Now during election, this type of development is common in all parties. This is not only the case in our party, but even in BJP,” Siddaramaiah reasoned.
His rival, Congressman L Revannasiddaiah, has also switched to the saffron party. The BJP hopes to use defectors like him and M Mahadev to make in-roads in the old Mysore region.
“It's not changing of parties at last minute. The voter assesses the trend which party has come up with better programmes,” Revannasiddaiah said.
It’s a trend that's cutting across all party lines. Like Gowda confidant for 30 years, D T Jayakumar didn't hesitate moving to the BSP, after the JDS denied him a ticket.
“Politics itself is like that. It always goes on moving, it changes day by day. Anyhow people are the final verdict,” Jayakumar said.
The story of split parties and votebanks of Mysore lie in such defections.
It's natural to see some aaya rams, gaya rams before every election, but Mysore will see an extreme case of it this election.
In almost every Assembly segment, there is at least one defector, who has quit his party and joined another in the last two months. And mixed voting patterns could well change the political landscape of this region.
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Party hoppers are only for selfish people and can be tresated as criminals. In fact if country has to improve
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