BJP vs BJP: Party backs ‘new-gen’ Simha over old guard Ramdas

Karnataka By Mahesh M Goudar November 28, 2022 Read the article

The BJP is keen on a generational shift in its Karnataka unit, going as far as to drop sitting MLAs from its candidates for the upcoming polls.

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An example is the recent standoff between the senior MLA SA Ramdas and younger MP Pratap Simha, over dome-shaped designs for a bus shelter.

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Simha raked up a controversy over the bus shelter on the Mysore-Ooty National Highway calling it a “mosque” since it had “one big dome and two smaller domes”.

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The bus shelter — that falls in SA Ramdas’ constituency and was built with his consent — became a bone of contention between the two leaders.

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Finally, with the intervention of party leadership, Ramdas relented and allowed Simha to alter the bus shelter, but expressed disappointment.

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Sources told South First that Simha also pressured the National Highway Authority of India.

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Ramadas clarified that the decision to pull down two domes was to put a brake to further controversies or “possible clashes”.

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A senior leader of the party with roots deep in the BJP said Ramdas had no option but to yield.

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He said, with six months for the polls, the tussle could have sent the “wrong message to party workers” and been “an opportunity for the Opposition.”

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The support of the BJP’s central leadership to Simha also corresponds with the party’s poll plank of Hindutva.

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A firebrand Hindutva leader, Simha has consistently run communal campaigns against minority communities.

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