Chamundeshwari by-election, a farce

India Interacts: "The dust may have settled on campaigning for the much-hyped Assembly by-election in Karnataka's Chamundeshwari constituency adjoining Mysore but it has thrown up larger questions – on election as a way of settling personal scores and its morphing into a circus.

For the last nearly one month, the state government from chief minister H D Kumaraswamy down to his colleagues, camped in the constituency. So too the opposition Congress and to a large extent, the BJP top brass. "