Bangalore: Hectic efforts are on in the Janata Dal (Secular) and the Bharatiya Janata Party to save the four-month-old H.D. Kumaraswamy Government, which is in the midst of a crisis over the insistence of the Janata Dal (Secular) on a comprehensive legislation relating to lands acquired for infrastructure projects and the Bharatiya Janata Party opposed to such an enactment.

While both the parties have been working out ways of saving the Government, there has not been much headway in finding a solution to the tussle over the legislation.

The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Janata Dal (Secular) have called for meetings of their legislature parties on Sunday to finalise a strategy.

The legislature session is scheduled to begin on Monday for a discussion on the State Budget.

The main subject on the agenda for the legislature party meetings is likely to be the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor project and how to save the Government while simultaneously keeping BMIC promoters Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise on a tight leash.

The Congress is closely monitoring the developments in the Janata Dal (S)-Bharatiya Janata Party coalition set up. All-India Congress Committee general secretary in charge of Karnataka A.K. Antony is expected to arrive here on Sunday.

Sources in the Janata Dal (Secular) told The Hindu that all was not well in the party over the statement made by national party president H.D. Deve Gowda, which has virtually threatened the survival of the coalition government. Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy has supported the stand taken by his father, Mr. Deve Gowda.

The former Prime Minister left for New Delhi on Thursday and is likely to return on Saturday.

Janata Dal (Secular) leaders have "off the record" expressed differences with Mr. Deve Gowda and said that the party should exhibit patience and restraint and should not force the fall of the government merely for the sake of land given for an infrastructure project.

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