Uncertainty in climate & politics of Karnataka

The political crisis in Karnataka has drawn an analogy wherein the resources-rich state has been facing severe vagaries of Nature and manipulations of its politicians.
During the last decade, it has seen huge changes its climate and political uncertainty alike. State has faced a decade of drought and two years of flood simultaneously. Even now, 12 of 30 districts in the State are facing severe rain deficiency.
Coincidentally, Karnataka showed its first sign of political uncertainty in 2004, when it gave a fractured mandate—the BJP won 79 seats, the Congress 65 and the JD (S) 58 in the 224-member Assembly. The tumultuous years between 2004-08 saw three chief ministers—Congress party's Dharam Singh, JD-S leader HD Kumaraswamy and BJP's BS Yeddyurappa of the BJP.
Even though it was the single largest party in the House, BJP was still three short of the halfway mark, and needed support from six independent Members of Legislative Assembly to form a government with BS Yeddyurappa as chief minister.
However, after a corruption scandal hit the BJP, in particular Yeddyurappa in 2011, the party was forced to make DV Sadananda Gowda chief minister. His reign however was short lived—after opposition to Gowda within the BJP's Karnataka unit, the party appointed Jagdish Shetter, a Yeddyurappa loyalist, to the position.
It was at this shaky phase that the party that saw allegations of ‘Operation Kamala'—a word the opposition coined in 2008 that refers to the ruling party BJP's attempts to woo opposition Congress and JD-S legislators in an attempt to retain power—levelled against it.
The 2013 Assembly elections gave the Congress a clear majority—it voted in Congress with 122 seats under Siddaramaiah, a former JD-S leader who fell out with HD Kumaraswamy and joined the Congress in 2006.
The fractured mandate of 2017 also threw up a hung House—the BJP got 104 seats, the Congress 80, and the JD (S) 38 seats, while three seats went to others. BJP's Yeddyurappa staked claim briefly—he was chief minister for two-and-a-half days last year, but could not prove his majority. Congress meanwhile acted quickly—it formed an alliance with rival JD-S to keep the BJP out of power. That election, and alliance, was the beginning of the current round of ‘natakas' in Karnataka and it may continue.