One glaring omission in the BJP’s Karnataka push was a local face to present to the voters. This gamble came with a steep price, as it had in Himachal in 2022. Is a ‘talent crisis’ to blame? In Ep 1234 of Cut The Clutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta analyses whether the BJP’s Karnataka performance holds some answers for the party in the upcoming elections for MP, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, as well as Telangana, the only other southern state where it has made some inroads.