13 May,2009 09:39 AM IST | | Agencies
JD-S leader H D Kumaraswamy tonight met Sonia Gandhi fuelling speculation of further cracks in the Third Front as Congress and BJP hunted for allies to shore up numbers with no signs of a clear winner emerging in the Lok Sabha elections.
Even as his father and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, who was behind the formation of the Third Front, issued a statement saying it was too early to write the obituary of this grouping, his son met Gandhi at her 10 Janpath residence.
While details of the hush-hush meeting were not known, it triggered intense speculation whether the grouping of Left and regional parties was facing further trouble after the TRS led by K Chandrashekar Rao dumped the Front and jumped on the NDA bandwagon on Sunday.
The former Karnataka chief minister tried to cover his face with a handkerchief when newsmen and photojournalists spotted him in a white Mercedes at the gate of Gandhi's residence adjoining the Congress headquarters.
