Modi has lost the charm he had' By A GANESH NADAR May 19, 2023 https://www.rediff.com/news/interview/john-richard-lobo-modi-has-lost-the-charm-he-had/20230519.htm John Richard Lobo, who was elected a Congress MLA from Mangalore City South in 2013, could not retain his seat five years later, when he lost to the Bharatiya Janata Party's D Vedavyas Kamath.
In spite of losing the state, the BJP did well in coastal Karnataka and Bengaluru. What are the reasons? In coastal Karnataka there is a communal factor. Mangalore is the laboratory of Hindutva experiments. The experiments done here are projected in the entire country. It is the laboratory of the RSS.