wo-time chief minister and five-time MLA JD(S) chief H D Kumaraswamy has as soon as once more demonstrated his political acumen by bagging a seat within the union council of ministers, regardless of his occasion becoming a member of the BJP-led NDA simply final 12 months. Because the time of its founding in 1999, the JD(S) has by no means fashioned a authorities by itself in Karnataka, however has been in energy twice in coalition with each nationwide events regardless of being a junior associate — for 20 months with the BJP from February 2006 and for 14 months with the Congress after the Could 2018 meeting polls. Kumaraswamy was chief minister on each events. The son of JD(S) patriarch and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda has now managed to safe a cupboard berth by allying with the BJP, at a time when his occasion was preventing the “battle for survival”.
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