a power struggle is currently on in karnataka after all three players in the state failed to get an outright victory keen to keep the bjp out of power at all costs the congress offered support to the jds the latter has accepted the offer and staked claim to form the government even as the bjp followed suit while looking for any chinks in the jds armourin the midst of this drama two veterans hold the keyread alsobjp may shore up numbers with operation lotus 20operation lotus was an infamous strategy started by then bjp chief minister b s yeddyurappa to buy over opposition party mlas with money and power bjp had poached 20 mlas from jds and congress making them resign their assembly membership and contest bypolls between 2008 and 2013karnataka dramas just begun with governors vote that will now countbengaluru a day of high drama where election fortunes of all three main contenders in the fray incumbent congress main rival bjp and regional powerhouse jds seesawed ended with former pm h d deve gowda and sonia gandhi agreeing to form a government to keep bjp out but the game may not bewho should get first call to form govt in karnataka jurys outwellknown jurist and former attorney general soli sorabjee insists that the singlelargest party should be invited first and asked to prove its majority on the floor of the house within a short period of time about 710 daysdodda gowdru in the thick of dramafor a man who headed a ragtag third front to become prime minister with support from the congress in 1996 tuesdays political developments are nothing new for haradanahalli doddegowda deve gowda for the 85yearold mp from hassan whose political career peaked to the post of pm and also plumbed the depths of relative insignificance the offer to once again become the focal point of an unfolding political drama is a blessing in disguise to revive his jdskarnataka election results complete coveragekarnataka polls data hubwho should get first call to form govt jurys outborn to a farmers family from holenarsipura in hassan gowda is a diploma holder in civil engineering he entered politics in 1956 at the young age of 26 with the indian national congress and remained with the party till 1962 denied an assembly ticket he contested as an independenta founding member of the erstwhile janata party with ramakrishna hegde s r bommai j h patel and others gowda grew from strength to strength and emerged as a strong vokkaliga leader which the community was starved of after the passing of kengal hanumanthaiahaddressed as dodda gowdru or appaji eldest gowda or father he rose to the post of pm after vacating the tje chief ministers post for his colleague j h patel in 1994 later following a series of splits within the party gowda became the janata dal secular and regained power in 2004 when karnataka threw up a similar fractured mandate ten years later gowda could be back