Siddaramaiah's burden of victory

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "In my humble view, 10 per cent of the budget being devoted to essential welfare schemes is absolutely necessary," he added.
55% : Hailing from Siddaramanahundi village in Mysuru, Siddaramaiah, who goes by his first name, is a lawyer by training who was drawn to Lohiaite socialism and won his first election in 1983 from Chamundeshwari, contesting as an independent.
54% : Welfare schemes apart, the Siddaramaiah government will have other pressing matters on its plate.
51% : Hence, while his government successfully implemented a bouquet of welfare schemes, it was eventually this resentment among the powerful caste groups that hurt the Congress in the 2018 election.
50% : In contrast, DKS's Achilles heel is that he faces several cases of income-tax evasion and money-laundering, which, he maintains, are a consequence of locking horns with the BJP in the past, especially in helping out the late Ahmed Patel win a crucial Rajya Sabha election in Gujarat in 2017.

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