Is Karnataka a cesspool of corruption ?
Is politics a cesspool? According to Amitabh Bachchan, the super star of Bollywood, it is. But I would say that politics in India is a cesspool of corruption. No wonder Amitabh Bachchan, a friend of Rajiv Gandhi, quit politics as a Congress MP.
Today this opinion may not be applicable to India, specially to Narendra Modi’s BJP Government. But the damning opinion is very much applicable to Karnataka which has become a cesspool of corruption after S.M. Krishna laid down office as Chief Minister in May 2004.
After S.M. Krishna, BJP came to power but was corrupt and incapable of good administration. Then came the Congress again and Karnataka saw the rise of a new star in the horizon of Karnataka politics — Siddaramaiah. His claim to political rise is his leadership of AHINDA (a Kannada acronym for Alpasankhyataru or minorities, Hindulidavaru or backward classes, and Dalitaru or Dalits). The Congress High Command made him the Chief Minister by default as Dr. G. Parameshwar as the President of the Congress had lost the election. That is called the quirk of history.
As Chief Minister (13 May 2013 -17 May 2018) Siddaramaiah was unstoppable with an attitude of hubris. He plunged into appeasement politics and nepotism as never before by any Congress CM.
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