The JD(S)%u2019 withdrawal of support to the BJP government in Karnataka has created a new benchmark for political chicanery. Such a behaviour of moral reverse, after giving individual affidavits to the Governor and parading their MLAs in front of the President, is an uncanny act by anyone who believes in societal and democratic values. Is there no value to a public pledge before the highest constitutional authority in the country? H D Deve Gowda and his son have held the state ransom for the last one and half months to their political machinations. In the process, they have also misled the highest constitutional functionaries during discharge of their duties. But for their written unconditional support, there was no need to revoke the President's rule and have a farce of a government formation. The President, the Union government and maybe the Supreme Court should intervene and take suitable action against the these people.
