But it was not only the defeat at the hands of the BJP that rankled.
Mr. Yeddyurappa denied the allegations and also quit the BJP to form the Karnataka Janata Paksha.
The liberal face of the BJP appears a tactical necessity, not a real change of heart.
The BJP is not a classic right-wing group: its priority is culture not economics.
The BJP runs the government of the state of Karnataka, of which Bangalore is the capital.
Many in the BJP demand Mr. Modi be named to lead the party in the election.
The BJP, the main opposition party, "will support the bill in Parliament, " she told reporters.
To a degree, Gujarat state, led by the Hinduist BJP party, has taken the lead.
He is joined by another senior BJP member, CP Thakur, and six junior ministers.
The BJP also says it will introduce a uniform civil code for all Indians.
The BJP apart, Congress also has to worry about a National Front-Left Front coalition.
BJP's spokesman, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, stalwartly predicts a clear-cut victory for his party in all four.
K. Singh, an MP from Bihar and economic adviser to the BJP-led government of 1998-2004.
Mr Gadkari was appointed to a three-year term as BJP leader in December 2009.
The BJP has formally called for an investigation into foreign funds ending up in missionaries' hands.
BJP, too, has to show that it can be a national, not a narrow, sectarian party.
Vajpayee appears to be eager to make the BJP look like a genuinely forward-looking party.
Varanasi is witnessing a three-cornered contest between the BJP, the main Opposition Congress party, and the regional Samajwadi Party.
For its part, the BJP will be working feverishly to ensure that does not happen.
The BJP was rattled by a split in its ranks after its chief minister in Karnataka, B.
The BJP had rejected Mr. Kumar's demand, but it has yet to name its prime ministerial candidate.
Mr. Ashok, also a senior leader of the BJP, said the party's office was the probable target.
BJP's partners have wooed Muslims in the past and will be reluctant permanently to alienate these voters.
But his reputation - and that of the BJP-led government - has already suffered a severe blow.
BJP, it has a wider choice of allies and can therefore play one off against the other.
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Today there are just a handful of Bollywood stars-turned elected politicians, including two federal ministers, who belong to the BJP.
If it formed a government tomorrow, the BJP would also have to rely on fickle smaller parties.
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Yet the BJP is competitive in only about 300 of these constituencies, mostly in northern and western India.
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Both the BJP's Mr. Vajpayee and current Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of the Congress Party fit this mold.
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The BJP far less than the Congress never quite managed, except in Gujarat, to adequately accommodate regional sentiment.
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