Fissures appear in BJP-JDS alliance days before joint campaign

The lack of coordination between state units of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Janata Dal is responsible for the public disagreement among the allies about taking on Siddaramaiah’s regime in Karnataka. Former chief minister and Lingayat strongman BS Yediyurappa and Radha Mohan Das Agarwal, BJP’s national general secretary who is also in charge of Karnataka, are both advising state president BY Vijayendra on resolving the tussle with the JDS, a BJP leader, who asked not to be named, said. We have power from Bengaluru to Mysuru.” Kumaraswamy’s comments came just a week after he joined the BJP union minister Prahlad Joshi and the party’s state leaders Yediyurappa and his son Vijayendra to address a press conference in Bangalore on the proposed padayatra. The bad timing of the yatra given the continuous downpours ravaging parts of Malnad in the state, the involvement of one of BJP’s general secretaries and former Hassan legislator Preetham Gowda, and the exclusion of the state JDS leaders in planning it; Gowda has, incidentally, been blamed for exposing the sex videos involving Prajwal and Suraj Revanna. “Kumaraswamy could also fear retaliatory action from Congress since it is known that many JDS leaders also benefitted from the Mysore Urban Development Authority’s action to reallot plots.