It has been a month of a marriage of compulsion and compromise between the Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) in Karnataka . But the  1 month old alliance seems to heading for troubled times and a possible divorce if political egos continue to rock the boat. At the heart of the matter is a clash between Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy and his predecessor Siddaramaiah over budget presentation.

While Siddaramaiah who wanted an interim budget so that his promises made in the previous budget could be implemented, doesnt seem to have found favour wiith chief minister  HDK who wants to present a full-fledged budget on July 5 to fulfil his promises and give the budget papers a JD(S) touch.

A visibly angry Siddaramaiah and senior Congress leaders make charges the way HDK is practicing what is called ”bypass” politics. He gets all his plans approved by Congress president Rahul Gandhi, thus leaving local leaders fretting, fuming and red-faced. The fact that HDK reportedly got an approval to present a full-fledged budget from Rahul Gandhi has left Siddaramaiah angry.

Almost immediately, Siddarmaiah, who heads the JD(S)- Congress coordination committee, vanished from the political radar and headed to a naturopathy retreat in the coastal town of Dharmasthala.

Recently, a video of his comments on Kumaraswamy’s decision to present a fresh budget and ridiculing the farm loan waiver proposal had gone viral. “From where will he (Kumaraswamy) bring money to waive farm loans? What is the necessity of waiving farm loans now, when my government has waived loans up to Rs 50,000 last year itself? No farmer has died in my village because of loans,” Siddaramaiah was heard saying in a mocking tone.

As the video clip went viral, an angry Kumaraswamy said “I am not at the mercy of anybody. You (Congress) have not given me this seat in alms. You better mind it. I don’t care how long I will continue in office.” “Am I going to get ‘commission’ by waiving farm loans? I am only trying to help farmers who are in distress. Don’t try to create unnecessary confusion. I know who is getting commission,” an upset Kumaraswamy said at a meeting today.

As the war between Siddaramaiah and HDK intensified, disgruntled Congressmen started to take advantage, putting pressure on the Chief Minister.

Amid all these developments, Yeddyurappa who left for Ahmedabad to meet party chief Amit Shah. He played hide and seek with the press and managed to slip away to the airport in a private vehicle. Accompanying him was senior party colleague Basavaraj Bommai, a Lingayat leader and son of former chief minister SR Bommai.

Officially, Yeddyurappa and Bommai were in Ahmedabad to hold talks with Shah on the Lok Sabha polls and to invite him for the state BJP executive committee meeting scheduled for June 29 but the motive could be to see if the BJP could exploit the rift.

Sources said that Shah has asked Yeddyurappa to go slow and let the Congress-JD(S) government crumble under the weight of its own contradictions.