Thread by @sugataraju

What a degenerate honeytrap state #Karnataka politics has reached. After the sex scandal of one @BJP4Karnataka minister, now six other BJP ministers have gone to court seeking an injunction against broadcasting/publication of stuff against them. What does this imply?

What are they afraid of? There is so much rumour doing the rounds that it is said there may be a mini tsunami of sex CDs preparing to hit the always anarchic shores of the @BSYBJP government. Perhaps @BJP4India should sack all injunction seekers to save itself of future

embarrassment. The 1+6 panicky ministers were all those who crossed over to the BJP from @INCKarnataka (01 is from JDS) in 2019. It is expected 02 ‘original’ ministers from the BJP stable are likely to go to court today, again seeking injunction. This makes nearly 30 percent

of the cabinet ‘guilty’ of something we don’t know. Now, is a faction within the BJP destroying them or is the Congress destroying them? Or, are they self-destructive? As much as there is an implication for BSY here, who poached them to form a government, there is an implication

for @siddaramaiah as well. In the sex CD that is out, the minister tells his ‘honey’ that BSY is corrupt while Siddaramaiah is a good man. His loyalties seem to be intact even after he crossed over. The 17 @INCIndia men who had crossed over to the BJP were seen as Siddaramaiah

loyalists. This begs the question if it was Siddaramaiah’s plan to pull down the secular coalition led by Kumaraswamy in 2019, by getting his acolytes to cross over. Was there a deal between Siddaramaiah and BSY? Or, was it that all those who crossed over simply stabbed

their leader and party in the back for the sake of power and pelf? Or were they so swayed by BJP, @RSSorg ideology, on which each one has the capacity to write a thesis for a doctoral degree. So many doubts prevail. So much bad taste in the mouth. So much churning in the stomach.

So much nausea that tickles you to throw up. Is this BJP’s way of fixing BSY or Congress’ way of teaching Siddaramaiah a lesson? Both anyway act independently of their high commands, and both their egos are like a sea’s brimful. Both are ultimate warriors of their own

self-interest. We don’t know what the game is and who is playing it, and at what level. Anyway, the game per se is of the base level, played in the midst of growing garbage heaps. Karnataka needs, deserves better.

Why does BJP, BSY find new ways to shame the state each time he is in power. Recall all that happened between 2008 and 2013 - sex, porn, mining scams and a tornado of corruption, which had taken a toll of the party with a difference. Replugging my @Outlookindia cover from 2010: