The fading winter of 2006 was action-filled in the nation's capital. After more than a year and half of dull politics on the Karnataka front, suddenly it all came alive on Feb.1 morning, when the BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu called a press conference. The air was thick with rumours and speculations about the possibility of BJP forming a government with a breakaway group of the Janata Dal(S) lead by its chief, H.D.Deve Gowda's son, H.D.Kumaraswamy.
The press conference was arranged to present the younger Gowda to the media and announce triumphantly the formation of the first BJP government in the south of India. But that was not to be. After hectic phone calls and confabulations between the BJP leaders including B.S.Yediyurappa, Naidu, and Ananth Kumar, among others, it was decided that the only excitement that the journalists could be dished out that day was the impressive spread of dishes on the lawns.Read More...
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