GOWDA'S LAST-DITCH BID FOR JD(S)'S SURVIVAL

The 180-degree turnaround of former prime minister and JD(S) supremo HD Deve Gowda to strike an alliance with the BJP for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls is to do with the party's survival more than anything else. But the party's now-expelled, then state president and ex-Union minister C M Ibrahim vehemently opposed the party, with its secular credentials, tying up with the right-wing BJP. Events panned out with Ibrahim and the then JD(S) national vicepresident C K Nanu splitting from the mother party to form a faction which they term as the 'real JD(S)', claiming a majority of the party's 19 MLAs in Karnataka to be on their side.

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As expected, Gowda expelled them. Following this, Nanu, who now claims to be the JD(S) national president, held a party convention to remove' Gowda from the post of national president. The 'removal' has no locus standi as Nanu and Ibrahim were already expelled from the party.