If any of us had an option to stay at a five-star hotel, we would obviously jump at that chance and prefer that over anything else. But not S Suresh Kumar. A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker in Karnataka, Kumar decided to ditch his five-star hotel accommodation to stay at a village cowshed while he was in Mysuru.

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Apparently, staying in open places and cowsheds is not a new thing for Kumar. "I have stayed in open places while walking from Bengaluru to Tirupati in 2013. I have also stayed in such places when I undertook a padayatra to Dharmasthala and Sabarimala in 2015," he says.

Kumar represents the Rajajinagar assembly constituency in a Bengaluru south suburb and is campaigning for BJP candidate Srinivasa Prasad in Nanjangud by-election scheduled which is scheduled for April 9.

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"The party leaders had arranged for air-conditioned accommodation for me, but I decided not to take it," Kumar said. He prefers unwinding at the cowshed after a long day of campaigning, where he spends his time reading newspapers and talking to his followers. Known for his impeccable wit, he always has people surround him to hear him speak. 

Maybe all politicians aren’t that bad. What do you guys say?