Bangalore, Jan 15: Karnataka politicians of all hues have been busy for months predicting that the BJP government headed by Jagadish Shettar will fall soon after Makar Sankranti Monday and the state will witness political polarisation for the better.
As the 'D-Day' dawned Monday, indications were that the forecast would not to come true and the polarisation would be nothing more than predilections of politicians hopping party ahead of the polls due in May.
The credit for coming out with a strategy to make the predictions go awry goes to the Bharatiya Janata Party for once, as ever since it came to power for the first time in Karnataka in May 2008, ham-handedness has been the hallmark of the way the party affairs in the state were managed by its central and state leaders.
Shettar, heading the BJP's third government in over four years, is sitting pretty and gaining strength with the BJP declaring he would lead the party in the polls and is its chief ministerial candidate.
This is in sharp contrast to the scare that BJP's first chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa created in the ruling outfit just about a month ago when he quit to lead the Karnataka Janata Party (KJP). He, his supporters and the opposition Congress and Janata Dal-Secular almost daily predicted that Shettar's fall was imminent, leading the public to believe that the state was heading for polls in February.
