South Connect: Demand for separate North Karnataka state puts JD(S)-Congress in crisis.

Demand for separate North Karnataka state puts JD(S)-Congress in crisis. Chief minister HD Kumaraswamy is now battling the first major political crisis of his two-month-old coalition regime for a separate North Karnataka state picking up. Leaders from the region, consisting of 13 districts, are planning a bandh on August 2 to press their demand. An eight-month pregnant woman in Andhra Pradesh was carried by her husband and other villagers for 12 km through a forest so she could make it to an ambulance. 22-year-old Jindamma, who was suffering labour pains, gave birth on the way. Her baby boy died before she could get to the ambulance.