Hard on the heels of its decision to join hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Janata Dal (S) is now teetering on the edge of a vertical split with the party’s Kerala unit giving a formal rebuke to the national leadership.
A delegation led by JD(S) State president Mathew T. Thomas, MLA, and Minister K. Krishnankutty on Sunday conveyed the State unit’s decision not to align with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) directly to party supremo H.D. Deve Gowda. The abrupt declaration of support to the NDA by the JD(S) national leadership had caught its Kerala unit, a constituent of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government, in a bind.
