The prospects for an early decision by Karnataka Governor Rameshwar Thakur on the BJP-JD(S) combine’s claim to form a new government under B S Yediyurappa hinges on clarifications from JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda, the Congress asserted on Saturday.
Gowda can help the situation through a public clarification on the “political confusion” his two letters, one to Governor Rameshwar Thakur seeking dissolution and another to the BJP Chief Rajnath Singh putting some pre-conditions for government formation, said Congress Chief Spokesman M Veerappa Moily.
However, informed sources suggested that the Governor could seek clarifications on the issues raised by Gowda from JD(S) legislature party leader H D Kumaraswamy and BJP legislature party leader B S Yediyurappa.
“The ball is in the court of Deve Gowda. It is up to him, he is the master of the situation” that currently prevails in the State over the BJP-JD(S) claim to form a new government, Congress Chief Spokesman M Veerappa Moily told newsmen here on Saturday evening. Moily was obviously responding to BJP charges that the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre and the State Governor were stalling the installation of a new coalition government headed by Yediyurappa.
He suggested that the extended consultations by the Governor over last week’s claim to government formation was created by Gowda’s October 24 letter to the Governor seeking dissolution of the State Assembly and his Thursday letter to BJP Chief Rajnath Singh listing several conditions for coalition government formation. 
The Congress, while maintaining that it was entirely up to the State Governor to take a decision on the claim to government formation has contended that the two letters by Gowda had raised serious questions about the stability of the proposed coalition government.
There are indications that the Congress leadership, at a meeting late on Thursday which was attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, party chief Sonia Gandhi, AICC General Secretary incharge of the State Pritviraj Chavan had concluded that the Governor would have to favourably consider the claim for government formation.