Two hours before the floor test was to happen, the narrative on TV stations started changing. That was the first indication that the BJP had thrown in the towel. Anchors started pushing the line that the BJP high command was not too pleased with BS Yeddyurappa’s efforts to get a majority by hook or by crook. The attempt was to distance the leadership in New Delhi from the MLA-shopping that the leaders in Karnataka were indulging in. Difficult to say how many people were convinced that in the BJP — where the entire Karnataka election was coordinated from Delhi and not Bengaluru — such a plan would be executed without the high command kept in the loop.
But why and when exactly did the BJP decide to throw in the towel?
