Despite the corruption charges against them, the Reddy brothers and their associates are once again gaining prominence, with the BJP and the Congress giving them tickets.
A police check post near Hanagal village on the Bengaluru-Ballari National Highway is located not on the main road, but on a side road leading to a nondescript village called Myagalahatti. Gun-toting men stop vehicles that take the road, search them thoroughly, enter vehicle numbers in a register, study the faces of the passengers and question them about their destination. “Are you going to the Reddy house?” they ask.
Close to the check post is a sprawling farmhouse nestled in greenery, in stark contrast with the parched terrain of Chitradurga district. The compound wall is dotted with BJP flags, huge cutouts of BJP leaders Amit Shah and B.S. Yeddyurappa and Ballari MP B. Sriramulu. Former tourism minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy, one of the three Reddy brothers of Ballari, now stays in this farmhouse in Chitradurga, bordering Ballari.
In the heart of Chitradurga, BJP’s star campaigner Prime Minister Narendra Modi is whipping up a storm, attacking the Congress and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. He asks the people of Karnataka to save the state from becoming the “ATM of the Congress”. But even Modi finds it difficult to defend the Reddy brothers and their association with the BJP.
Janardhana Reddy, an accused in the multi-crore illegal mining scam involving his Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), is barred by the Supreme Court from entering Ballari, his home district. After the BJP fielded his close friend and powerful Valmiki leader Sriramulu from Molakalmuru assembly constituency in a bid to consolidate the decisive scheduled tribe votes in the region, Reddy moved to the farmhouse from Bengaluru.
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