Published 20:26 IST, November 1st 2018

Roughly midway between this year's Assembly election and the upcoming 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the political situation in the state of Karnataka presents a fascinating topic of study, with alliance dynamics highly fluid despite the fact that it is the leader of the third-biggest party in the state, JD(S)' Kumaraswamy, who is chief minister, in alliance with the second-largest party, the Congress, while the single-largest party BJP is in the Opposition