Amid high drama which lasted six hours, Karnataka chief minister D.V. Sada-nanda Gowda on Tuesday demonstrated that he is no pushover as he stymied efforts by his predecessor B.S. Yeddyurappa to grab plum posts ahead of the election of Jagadish Shet-tar, the Lingayat strongman, as leader of the legislature party.

Amid high drama that lasted six hours, Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday demonstrated that he is no push-over as he stymied efforts by his predecessor B.S. Yeddyurappa to grab plum posts

Belligerent supporters of former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa followed up their resignations with a charg-esheet against chief minister D.V. Sadan-anda Gowda to general secretary in-charge of Karnataka, Dharm-endra Pradhan, and look set to up the ante yet again on Sunday when they found that their demand for chan-ge in leadership would be dealt with by the party’s parliamentary board in New Delhi on-ly on Tuesday, July 3.

Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda has confided to close confidantes that he no longer wants to be chief minister. Seven months after taking office and in the midst of a bruising campaign to ensure t