According to sources, the party’s in-charge for Karnataka affairs Yashwanth Sinha and party leaders are said to have adopted a policy to look ahead at the meeting. “What has happened is past. We will leave that behind us,” they are said to have told the legislators referring to the betrayal by the JD (S).

A strategy to keep the sympathy factor alive and to play up the betrayal card is being chalked out. Unlike last month, when the party leaders rushed to participate in yatras, the BJP is adopting a different scheme this time.