TALK TIME
Sadanand gowda, former Karnataka cm
He
is a one-man army. He governed 65 million people for 350 days. He held
22 portfolios directly and the rest in proxy. He inherited others’ men
in his Cabinet. His personal staff was not ‘his own men’. Pins were
pricking him left, right and centre and still he smiled broadly! That is
Devaragunda Venkappa Sadananda Gowda of Karnataka. Needless to
say he was elected to office with the blessings of the discredited BJP
leader BS Yeddyurappa, who has more than a dozen criminal cases of
corruption, nepotism and illegal notification, etc., pending against
him. But, Sadananda Gowda did not become a puppet in the hands of his
mentor turned tormentor. As a lone warrior, he took all the innuendoes
hurled at him in his stride, fought the peoples’ war against corruption
and gave 350 days of governance with a difference. This was even as his
friends had become foes and vice-versa! B Harishchandra Bhat talked to him a day after he relinquished office ‘voluntarily’ at the behest of the party high command. Excerpts.....READMORE
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