What BJP badly needs is a vokkaliga (Gowda) base. GT Gowda can easily fill in that place. However, I don't think he can win the election but certainly succeed in splitting the Gowda votes helping Congress win the seat. If Gowda base is gone what else is there for Deve Gowda ?. He can then take political sanyas. If BJP wants to come to power it has to shed its image of Brahmin-Lingayath party.
