Bengaluru: There's certainly more to it than meets the eye as JD (S) patriarch H.D. Deve Gowda met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Mr Gowda met Mr Modi two days after Governor Vajubhai Vala, a leader handpicked by the PM for Karnataka, declined to meet the former PM when he arrived in Raj Bhavan to submit a memorandum against the government's decision to set up the Anti Corruption Bureau.
The meeting assumes significance in view of forthcoming elections to Rajya Sabha with leaders of BJP keen to retain two seats with the support of JD (S) legislators. Union minister Venkaiah Naidu is among two Rajya Sabha members from Karnataka who are scheduled to complete their term in June 2016.
Sources said the leader called on Mr Modi only to seek his intervention for an early solution to the dispute over sharing water of the river Mahadayi with Goa.
He met Union finance minister Arun Jaitley to press for release of central funds to support drought relief works in the state, and railway minister Suresh Prabhu for speedy completion of projects of his ministry.
