The BJP and the Janata Dal (Secular) drew curtains on their 20-month coalition on a bitter note a day after former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda said ‘no’ to BJP chief Rajnath Singh on the issue of transfer of power in Karnataka.
The BJP withdrew support to Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy while the JD (S) revived its secular card, accusing it of attempting to turn Karnataka into a Hindutva laboratory like Gujarat.