The two-day State BJP Executive Committee meeting held in city on May 6 and 7, 2017, created a lot of media furore that was avoidable. Many leaders in the party felt that they could have had a person to handle the aggressive media. If only they had a proper spokesperson who knew Mysuru and its culture, the embarrassment could have been avoided. One person’s name that came up was that of actress and BJP Spokesperson Malavika Avinash but, as often happens in BJP, neither she nor anyone else was given the responsibility. This was the same Malavika who was making news as the likely candidate for the KR Constituency in city for the forthcoming Assembly elections in 2018.
Star of Mysore Features Editor N. Niranjan Nikam caught up with Malavika Avinash, who was sitting with a fractured leg at a private hotel in city early morning, over breakfast. She talked about why she was attending the meeting, her interest in politics, why she feels she should contest from Mysuru and her role as a Spokesperson and her husband Avinash. Excerpts.
