It is ridiculous for Deve Gowda to make demand for certain action before the scheduled hand over. Now that the Minister has resigned as demanded, there should not be any reason for JD(S) for not honouring its promise. But there will be several others that will be invented even if there is a hand over of Power to BJP. It can only be termed as Mean, Unfaithful, and Unbecoming of a former PM to start playing game like this. There would certainly have some other drama unfolding had it not been this demand.
The BJP and the Congress must address themselves by making it amply clear not to allow these small regional parties to rule over them. It is only the hunger of power that made BJP to break the Congress led coalition government in Karnataka. Had it not been there, there could not have been such miserable situation arising.
These two national parties should have broad understanding of not destabilising such coalition governments of one another so that these small fishes would not start dictating things. The situation has gone down to such a level that a 'one man' party, such as an independent MLA, has been able to pull down a government. To appease these MLAs, plum postings are offered. This is nothing but bribing.
If these two parties have some understanding to deal logically and on a long-term basis, things would start working for them and there would not be such black-mailing possible.
That would, in turn, serve good for the Democracy.
