Although the BJP is also responsible for this situation, Gowda has revealed that he is not to be trusted by anyone. Why are we, the people, not raising our voices against politicians like this? The time has come for citizens to forget their differences and struggle to establish credible politics.

— Shailesh Kumar Bangalore

• Karnataka, like its neighbours Tamil Nadu, is slowly becoming another Bihar, where might is always right. The Deve Gowda family is reigning supreme in the state by clinging to power and expanding its family businesses in all fields, especially land acquisition. Given this, it is disappointing to see even national-level parties like the BJP and the Congress falling into the trap set by the Deve Gowda family for petty gains. Now that Deve Gowda’s duplicity has been revealed, one hopes the people and political partners will be wiser in the future.

— V.S. Ganeshan

Bangalore

Convening disgrace

• There was nothing wrong with the NDA convener George Fernandes meeting Anand Mohan at Beur Central Jail to lend him support (George visits Anand Mohan...), but I was shocked to read what Fernandes said on that occasion (“that they will raise the issue among the masses and unmask the Nitish Kumar government”). People like former the JD(U) MP and his wife, Lovely, also a former MP, are involved in a heinous crime involving the killing of former Gopalganj DM, G. Krishnaiah, in December 1994. Those who are involved in this killing are a disgrace to the nation and deserve no leniency — least of all from a senior political leader like Fernandes.

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