Karnataka Congress News | BJP's Bommai Targets Congress Over ‘Removing OBC CM’ In Karnataka
The Karnataka leadership transition debate has now taken a sharp OBC politics turn, with BJP leader and former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai accusing the Congress of undermining its own social justice narrative by potentially replacing Siddaramaiah, one of the party’s tallest OBC leaders. Bommai questioned Rahul Gandhi’s commitment to backward class politics, arguing that removing Siddaramaiah midway through his term would damage both the Congress’s credibility and the broader INDIA alliance’s OBC outreach. The BJP has now begun aggressively framing the possible leadership change as a contradiction to Rahul Gandhi’s repeated emphasis on social justice and backward class representation. Congress insiders, meanwhile, are attempting to carefully manage the transition optics, aware that Siddaramaiah’s AHINDA coalition of backward classes, Dalits and minorities remains politically crucial in Karnataka.
