New Delhi: The political landscape in Karnataka is fast becoming clearer as the Central Committee of the JD(S) sits in New Delhi to decide the future of its alliance with the BJP.
Top leaders of the two parties are also scheduled to meet in New Delhi on power-sharing later on Friday. Deve Gowda and Kumaraswamy are scheduled to meet BJP President Rajnath Singh on Saturday to convey their final decision on the issue.
Even as everybody waited to hear the final word from the Delhi meeting, the Karnataka Cabinet met on Friday and decided to convene a special session of the state legislature on October 18. The decision added fresh fuel to speculation that the Kumaraswamy Government is planning to seek a floor test in the House before demitting office.
After the resignation of the BJP ministers, the JD(S) Government in the state is technically in minority now. The Chief Minister is, however, yet to act on the resignations. Yet, there are no visible signs that the JD(S) is keen on transferring power to the saffron party.
While the political drama has now shifted to Delhi with talks slated between the leaders of the two parties, Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy called an emergent meeting of the Cabinet, from which the BJP ministers kept away following their resignation on October 2.
Briefing reporters after the meeting in Bangalore, the state's Primary and Secondary Education Minister Basavaraj Horatti sought to play down the decision to call the legislature session, saying it had been decided earlier to have it in October.
"The decision will be intimated to the governor and his permission will be sought (for convening the session)," Horatti said.
That the state is fast approaching a constitutional crisis was also born out by the fact that BJP's chief ministerial candidate BS Yediyurappa is for the first time talking about going back to the people.
"If they (JDS) don't want to transfer power, we are also ready for elections. Let's go before the people," he said on Friday. All this while, Yediyurappa had been talking of finding out ways to resolve the issue amicably.
He said his party would take 3-4 days before responding to the 'grave charges' made against it by the Chief Minister.
"We also have a long list (of grave charges against the coalition partner JD-S)," he said. Denying JD(S) supremo HD Deve Gowda's charge that he did not act on giving relief to sugarcane growers, Yediyurappa said it was an attempt to put him in the dock before farmers.
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