India, April 24 -- Karnataka is seen as an outlier in the political map of South India for its willingness to back the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In all of 130 Lok Sabha seats in the states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, and Kerala and the Union territory of Puducherry, it is the 28 constituencies in Karnataka that the BJP banks on to prevent a washout in the South: In the 2019 general elections, the BJP won 25 of these 28 seats and its tally from rest of the region was a mere four seats, all from Telangana. On Friday, 14 of the Karnataka constituencies, among them the urban seats of Bengaluru and Mysuru, will vote; the outcome will be crucial to the BJP's pursuit to win a third consecutive term with an enhanced majority....