Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Tuesday lost the trust vote in the Karnataka Assembly that had been put off by the ruling coalition for days. However the genesis of the current crisis lay in the indecisive verdict served by the Karnataka voter. Overlapping geo-strengthAs mentioned earlier the JD(S) is primarily a south Karnataka party where the BJP is, at best, a peripheral player. The primary contest in the 10 districts of south Karnataka, including Mysuru, Mandya, Chamarajanagara, Hassan, Tumkuru, was between the coalition partners. Congress leaders felt that they were being taken advantage of with power concentrated in the hands of the Gowda family and thus a rebellion started brewing.

Source: Hindustan Times July 23, 2019 14:23 UTC