The way Karnataka has witnessed its turn-coat politicians of various hues behave, having nothing but their own words to eat for their break fast, lunch and dinner, makes for a sad and sickening contempt for the political class as a whole. And it is a disgrace that a former PM is playing petty politics to ensure his son%u2019s stint as the CM The Gowda family takes the cake for it followed not far away from the other main political parties who are all treating the state as their own fiefdom.