Bengaluru: Karnataka Pradesh Congress President DK Shivakumar Committee to write history by running 168km as part of 11 days of Mekedatu inyatra in the 2023 assembly poll suddenly ended on the fifth day under pressure from various quarters.
However, many political experts, felt a four-day event had become a mixed bag for Shivakumar but offered zero political dividends for Congress.
In addition to being a mass contact program, the restricted inyatra helped Shivakumar rebuild itself politically and revived his polluted image because he remained in the center of attention.
On the prime day, Shivakumar also impresses workers with their organizational capabilities and planning.
This event helped him, to some extent, improve the gap among party officials who were seeking his dream to become the main minister.
Senior officials believe Shivakumar prints brownies points tactically, even though the events are cut short.
“This strategy will be about two birds with one stone.
One, it will help him emerge as the leader of the Vokcaliga and weaken the political base JD.
Second, it has strengthened his chances of becoming a minister if the party returns to power, ” one of them said.
But a lot Inside the party and beyond believes that it might not benefit Congress as expected since the event was carried out by truly ignoring public health.
Shivakumar faced many attacks on social media to state that there was no Covid-19 in the state and it was all manipulated by The BJP government even when the world is fighting the third wave of pandemic.
He is also trolled because he rejects Covid tests and reprimands health officials, in addition to doing a total of total disgust towards the norms, accompanied by thousands of people.
Many of them do not wear masks or follow social distances.
“In the end, politics is a perception game.
From those who were in demand and galvanized party cadres by giving it hope, for once, setting the agenda with the diayatra, Congress did not use it because of a bad time from the road to water and lost his optical battle, “said Sandeep Shastri political analyst.
Some BJP leaders said inyatra were held to help Shivakumar consolidated his base in Ramanagara.
“Because he was raided by the Income Tax Department, he faced several setbacks and his image had reached low.” Ramanagara District Minister CN Ashwath Narayan said that in the political battle was not more than a Congress ranking to expand Political Capital Shivakumar and Steaming the image of Siddaramaiiah ahead of the 2023 poll