Fifteen years ago, mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy was the toast of BJP and its mascot for political poaching. He put the saffron party in the saddle in Karnataka through “Operation Lotus” and hogged headlines with his jet-setting lifestyle and power politics. But, if his rise was spectacular, so was his fall. He faded out of most memories and into oblivion after being jailed in the biggest mining scam that rocked the state.https://ift.tt/Ki0uNpG