Congress political Affairs deciding that it would not do business with Gowda.

The father-son duo of H D Deve Gowda and H D Kumaraswamy struck again on Monday. They scripted a new chapter of high farce and low drama in politics by guillotining BJP's dream of a government in south India hours before the BJP-JD(S) coalition was to face a trust vote.

Effecting the latest of their flip-flops, they got the JD(S) flock to inform governor Rameshwar Thakur that they had backtracked on their pledge to support CM B S Yeddyurappa of BJP in the trust vote.

If that was not enough, the Vokkaligga warlord rushed to New Delhi in the evening to try to negotiate terms for a fresh alliance with his old partner, Congress. But the state may be headed for President's rule and elections, with the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs deciding that it would not do business with Gowda.

Gowda's credibility quotient has dipped so low that many in Congress prefer facing polls after a spell of Central rule rather than taking office with the support of the maverick JD(S) supremo. What was surprising was that Congress, just like BJP before it, seemed to be ready to talk with Deve Gowda, perhaps because the latter offered to support a Congress government from outside.

The BJP-led government fell in a heap barely a week after it was sworn in on November 12 at a function attended by the saffron party’s top brass though Deve Gowda himself was a significant absentee.

Courtesy:timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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