Karnataka polls: How BJP may shore up numbers with Operation Lotus 2.0

‘Operation Lotus’ was an infamous strategy started by then BJP chief minister B S Yeddyurappa to buy over opposition party MLAs with money and power. BJP had poached 20 MLAs from JD(S) and Congress, making them resign their assembly membership and contest bypolls, between 2008 and 2013.

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