JD(S) workers were in for a rude shock on Sunday morning when they were denied entry into their own party office on race course road. They were intrigued when they learnt the party patriarch H D Deve Gowda and his entire family was inside the office from where a thick smoke was emanating.

But when the security personnel emerged from inside the office and distributed bisibele bath and flowers as prasadam at 9 am, they realised that their chief is at it again: Seeking divine intervention for the party’s success in the coming polls.

Gowda along with his almost entire family performed special poojas and homas, including Ganapathi homa, poornahuti homa and other poojas, all through the night on Saturday at the JD(S) main office. Gowda accompanied by wife Channamma, H D Revanna and his wife Bhavani, started poojas around 9 pm on Saturday which went on till 9 am on Sunday.

HDK late
Insiders said that Gowda and Revanna were upset over former CM H D Kumaraswamy and his wife Anita for missing the pooja. When asked about the purpose of holding special poojas, the former CM only said “It’s being done for the good of all.”

He has decided to revive his grama vastavya (village stay) programmes from Sunday, and is staying at Lakshmipura village in Nelamangala taluk - 25 kms from Bangalore city. He will sleep at an auto rickshaw driver’s house in Lakshmipura.

Gowda meets Guv
Deve Gowda met Governor Rameshwar Thakur for three hours and urged him ‘to protect the interest of the State’ in BMIC project. He is learnt to have explained the problems.