make swift inroads with an aim to get a clear majority union home minister amit shah during his recent visit had asked his party leaders to concentrate on the region according to political analyst a narayana from the azim premji university how strong or weak the jds actually is can be decided only after the candidates list is announced because its survival depends on how many strong aspirants rejected by other parties join it it decides two things the percentage of votes jds is going to poll and the number of seats they win in constituencies where jds doesnt have strong candidates they depend on rejects from other parties he said further he said that the question is also whether the jds is stronger or weaker in their core area of old mysuru when compared to 2018 it appears on the face of it that they are weak for two reasons one series of desertions since 2018 second congress is in a better position among the vokkaligas one of the factors for it is d k shivakumar a vokkaliga as president also in the 2018 elections jds won in mandya and hassan districts only because of vokkaliga anger against siddaramaiah and that seems to have not disappeared now but subsided he said adding that how the bjp making inroads in old mysuru region will affect the jds or congress is the question that cannot be answered at the moment political observers are also of the view that the perception about jds being too family centric is one of its major drawbacks eight members of gowdas immediate family are into active politics gowda who is the jds supremo is also member of rajya sabha from karnataka while his son kumaraswamy is a former cm and mla from channapatna kumaraswamys wife anitha is mla from ramanagara segment and his son nikhil who is the jds youth wing president had unsuccessfully contested the 2019 lok sabha polls from mandya the party supremos elder son h d revanna is a former minister and mla from holenarsipura his wife bhavani revanna was a member of the hassan zilla panchayat and their sons prajwal and suraj are mp from hassan and a mlc respectively the gowda family has its representation in all the four major houses of public representatives lok sabha rajya sabha legislative assembly and legislative council james manor university of london professor who has been a keen observer of karnatakas politics during a webinar recently said familycentred politics is causing discontent and leading to desertion jds suffers from overcentralisation and dictatorial leadership narayana too echoing similar sentiments said the party is perceived to be over family centric even among vokkaligas leading to leaders deserting the party it was also one of the primary reasons for jds rout in 2019 lok sabha polls which was its lowest point ever since the partys formation according to some political observers jds inability to grow beyond the vokkaliga dominated old mysuru region other than in certain select pockets