This year, the judiciary showed its effectiveness in many ways. It looked so simple when the powerful paraded into jail as the judiciary turned the impossible into cheaply possible. It was magical.
While you can adjudge the metaphorical judiciary the man of the year award for having put a record number of corrupt behind bars, at national level in general, it deserves a state level bonhomie prize in Karnataka. It has achieved an impossible feat by bringing arch enemies close to be thick friends.
Just a year ago, the possibility of the JD(S) of H D Deve Gowda joining hands with Reddy brothers was unthinkable. The Reddys moving closer to Congress was unimaginable and Yeddyurappa befriending with Kumarswamy was just impossible. The judiciary has made all it possible. It played a leveler bringing them to book. And the birds of same feather flocked together.
The Reddys who had slapped a bribery case on him are now banking on Kumaraswamy for their man’s victory in Bellary. They had even filed a murder case against him, while he and his father retaliated with the charges of illegal mining. Now the chumminess is prevailing and Kumaraswamy has put his man to work for their man Sriramulu. The senior Gowda is generous enough not to put a candidate against him.
Yeddyurappa, after serving twenty-three-days of jail term thanks to the cases instigated by Gowda & Sons, has now pledged not to talk ill about the first family of the Karnataka politics. He has long forgotten that the former prime minister had once called him a bastard. The hatchets are buried. In response of the new found affability, the patriarch has shown his readiness to build a new political platform for the disgraced BJP man just in case he leaves the party.
The Congress that went on its foot all the way from Bangalore to Bellary to show the world the demons called the Reddys is now keen on supervising the comforts given to G Janardana Reddy at the Chanchala Guda jail. The mining lord is finding the VIP cell better than his Bellary palace to pull strings.
How did it happen?
Take Yeddyurappa’s case. After he refused to bend below the floor, Deve Gowda showed him the taste of his politics. His two men mounted fifteen cases on Yeddyurappa, while the governor played the supporting character sanctioning his prosecution. Deve Gowda’s direction turned superlative with a skillful script writing of Ananthkumar and able production management of L K Avani. Santhosh Hegde was just a light boy, but his contribution is worth mention.
After all Yeddyurappa is a Deve Gowda of BJP. He gave back with the same coin and as a result Gowda’s two sons and a daughter-in-law stood in the dock. The magic started working. Kumaraswamy first got anticipatory bail followed by Yeddyurappa getting an interim stay on legal proceedings against him. The cases against Kumarswamy and his wife Anitha were quashed followed by Yeddyurappa getting bail and anticipatory bail. Eldest son of the Gowda clan Balakrishne Gowda too got stay on his DA case. And at the end, foes are the best chums.
After the god mother dumped them, Deve Gowda was better god father for the Reddys. While Janardana Reddy moved close to Congress through CBI, Sriramulu struck a chord with Kumaraswamy. The realization was that all were in the glass cage of their own and throwing stone would bring mutual destruction. Better bet was to unit together to destruct the world.
With such a remarkable to feat to its credit, the court is shy of a step to complete accomplishment. The judiciary is still not able to goad Gowda going for a jadduki jappi with road builder Ashok Kheny. The long drawn battle between the two Goliaths is continuing taking its toll on legions of poor Davids called farmers, who are supposed to have lost their land for the express highway. The court can’t put an end it because the first Goliath Kheny is an expert in winning court cases- he has won 543 cases so far- and he is not scared of legal battle. The second Goliath Gowda is a diehard politician who sees a political opportunity even in the death of a farmer. Guess who can save us.
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