Former prime minister HD Deve Gowda said that his son, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, was running a stable government in the state and would do so for a full five years, despite "gossip for the past seven months". He said the developments in Uttar Pradesh - of Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav's alliance - have shown that the Congress must be open to negotiation when it comes to the number of seats the Janata
