Set up after the JD(S) and Congress joined hands in Karnataka in May last year, the committee has met only around five times in the last year. A proposal to include the JD(S) and Congress presidents has remained on paper for months now. Even the crucial seat-sharing meetings for the parliamentary elections was not held in the coordination committee as Deve Gowda is not part of this body. A. Narayana, a political analyst and faculty at the Bengaluru-based Azim Premji University, said the coordination committee was not active to begin with. BJP won 25 out of the 28 parliamentary seats while the JD(S) and Congress coalition was reduced to one seat each, making it a question of survival for the alliance partners.

Source: Mint June 03, 2019 13:51 UTC