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CK Jaffer Shariff Congress loses its prominent Muslim face in Karnataka Challakere Abdul Kareem Jaffer Shariff was an embodiment of the proverb: Small is beautiful. A relatively dwarf personality by physical stature but made it big on the national politics in general and in a dominant manner on the home turf of Karnataka. But no one disputes the fact of a prominent face of the Congress in the state being withered away with the demise of CK Jaffer Shariff. Unfortunately the former Union Minister’s death went unnoticed in the mainstream media as MH Ambareesh, another former union minister and popular Kannada film personality also passed away the very same day. In fact the local vernacular TV channels beamed live the developments related to the actor’s death and funeral day in and day out but chose to ignore a political leader who had immensely contributed to the state and nation. CKJS’s meteoric rise in politics is typical to the rags and riches stories. He hailed from a ...

HN Ananthkumar’s demise a big setback to BJP in Karnataka HN Ananthkumar’s untmimely demise has literally come as a catastrophe to the Karnataka unit of Bharatiya Janata Party. No one had ever wondered that the typical middle class boy who had transformed over a period of time into a national leader would meet such a ghastly end so soon. But ultimately fate had its last laugh. Looking back at the political history of the state Siddavanahalli Nijalingappa was the only person to become the President of All India National Congress. BD Jatti was Vice President and Acting President for some time. HD Devegowda becoming the Prime Minister and SR Bommai becoming the President of Janata Dal are notable developments as far as the state’s leaders are concerned. Although Ramakrishna Hegade nurtured an ambition of becoming the Prime Minister lost the race miserably. In that way HN Ananthkumar had a slow beginning initially but within a couple of decades his political career took the shape of mete...