A tough road for Congress, JD(S)

After a series of setbacks in the last two years, facing bypolls in 15 Legislative Assembly constituencies on December 5 will be the first big challenge for the Congress.
Its once coalition partner, the Janata Dal (Secular), finds itself in an equally tough situation.
Many Congress leaders are yet to come out of the shock and disappointment over the Lok Sabha election debacle.
Factions in the Congress — new entrants and the old guard — appear to be getting bolder now and making allegations against each other openly.

Desertion of the party by its legislators, arrest of its main electoral strategist and troubleshooter D.K. Shivakumar, and delay in appointments of office-bearers to the (KPCC) seem to be making the party weaker than it was a year ago.

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