India, June 20 -- Camps, ageing BSY, an unresponsive state president, shadow boxing have party in a pickle.

Bengaluru: For the last decade-and-a-half, Karnataka has been the one and only productive hunting ground for the BJP in South India. The last Lok Sabha elections saw 25 MPs out of 28 from BJP being elected from the state. The credit was equally shared by state and central BJP.

Narendra Modi at the Centre as Prime Minister and Yediyurappa in state, everything was hunky-dory. Cut to present. Several camps in the saffron party; ageing Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa; an ineffective state president Navin Kateel, and uncertainties surrounding the next Assembly elections.the central BJP seems to have its task cut out as bitter politics...