Bangalore: H.D.Devegowda again came to grieve the situation in Chennapatna, where his son Kumaraswamy need not have contested when general elections were only two years away. Earlier he grieved over his son’s coup, to become CM in 2006. A temporary arrangement would have been enough, he mumbled, meeting pressmen about 100 miles from the capital in Mandya Dt., where he attended a religious function in Ejjalaghatta.

HDK had not consulted his father, but the latter bowed to his followers only last evening, and so the senior Gowda was angry at HDK’s strategy. Three constituencies- Jagalur, Bangarpet and Chennapatna go to by-polls in April 2011, under operation Lotus plan