Siddaramaiah: An old-world socialist who reshaped political contours

The term Ahinda may have been coined by the late Devaraj Urs, Karnataka’s first chief minister, in the 1970s, but Siddaramaiah, who will be sworn in as the state’s new chief minister later this week has given his own spin to the term derived from the Kannada acronym for Alpasankhyataru or minorities, Hindulidavaru or backward classes, and Dalitaru or Dalits