BENGALURU: PM Narendra Modi and former Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy will resolve how finest BJP and JD(S) can leverage one another’s strengths for the Lok Sabha battle in opposition to Congress within the southern state subsequent yr, former PM HD Deve Gowda mentioned Sunday whereas placing the seal on hypothesis about his social gathering taking part in the saffron hand.
The JD(S) nationwide president’s affirmation of the tie-up got here two days after BJP’s ex-Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa appeared to spill the beans a couple of pre-poll understanding earlier than the 2 sides might make a proper announcement.
Deve Gowda advised reporters in Bengaluru that BJP and JD(S) had been beginning out on ‘an equal footing’ in Karnataka. “A ultimate assembly between HDK (Deve Gowda’s son) and PM Modi will resolve the seats we’ll contest,” he mentioned.
“BJP has a vote base in Mysuru, Mandya and Ramanagara. Don’t low cost JD(S) energy as properly. With out our votes in Bijapur, Raichur and Bidar, BJP can’t win LS seats there. In Chikkaballapura, as an illustration, with out our 2.8 lakh votes, BJP can’t win”. The previous PM mentioned he had already “made this clear” in my conferences with the BJP management, together with Modi.
A whiff of resentment amongst a bit of JD(S) legislators quickly after Deve Gowda’s announcement threatened to queer the pitch for a seat-sharing deal. JD(S)’s Gurmitkal MLA Sharanagouda Kandakur mentioned the tie-up does not bode properly for the way forward for the regional social gathering.
“Any such choice will confuse our cadre, who’ve fought tooth and nail with BJP in a number of constituencies,” Kandakur advised TOI. “Many are depending on JD(S) for his or her political survival. The management must convene a gathering of MLAs and search their opinions.”
A number of former BJP MLAs who joined the regional social gathering additionally appeared anxious about their future. “We’ve MLAs like Karyiamma from Devadurga and Nemraj Naik who got here from BJP. Now, how will these MLAs face their cadre?” a JD(S) member mentioned.
State BJP functionaries too reacted cautiously. “BJP will weigh the professionals and cons earlier than taking a ultimate name,” former BJP nationwide common secretary C T Ravi mentioned. “Till then, BJP will put together to contest all 28 LS seats within the state.”
Deve Gowda admitted that a part of the explanation for aligning with BJP was to “save” his social gathering within the face of “a scientific transfer by Congress to electorally remove JD(S)”. Son Kumaraswamy mentioned the motive behind the JD(S)-BJP alliance was “not our private ambition or energy, however to save lots of the folks of Karnataka from Congress’s maladministration”. “What ideology is Congress speaking of when the social gathering and INDIA lacked the essential courtesy to ask Deve Gowda, a stalwart of secular forces?” he mentioned, describing BJP as “a splinter of the erstwhile Janata Occasion”.
The JD(S) nationwide president’s affirmation of the tie-up got here two days after BJP’s ex-Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa appeared to spill the beans a couple of pre-poll understanding earlier than the 2 sides might make a proper announcement.
Deve Gowda advised reporters in Bengaluru that BJP and JD(S) had been beginning out on ‘an equal footing’ in Karnataka. “A ultimate assembly between HDK (Deve Gowda’s son) and PM Modi will resolve the seats we’ll contest,” he mentioned.
“BJP has a vote base in Mysuru, Mandya and Ramanagara. Don’t low cost JD(S) energy as properly. With out our votes in Bijapur, Raichur and Bidar, BJP can’t win LS seats there. In Chikkaballapura, as an illustration, with out our 2.8 lakh votes, BJP can’t win”. The previous PM mentioned he had already “made this clear” in my conferences with the BJP management, together with Modi.
A whiff of resentment amongst a bit of JD(S) legislators quickly after Deve Gowda’s announcement threatened to queer the pitch for a seat-sharing deal. JD(S)’s Gurmitkal MLA Sharanagouda Kandakur mentioned the tie-up does not bode properly for the way forward for the regional social gathering.
“Any such choice will confuse our cadre, who’ve fought tooth and nail with BJP in a number of constituencies,” Kandakur advised TOI. “Many are depending on JD(S) for his or her political survival. The management must convene a gathering of MLAs and search their opinions.”
A number of former BJP MLAs who joined the regional social gathering additionally appeared anxious about their future. “We’ve MLAs like Karyiamma from Devadurga and Nemraj Naik who got here from BJP. Now, how will these MLAs face their cadre?” a JD(S) member mentioned.
State BJP functionaries too reacted cautiously. “BJP will weigh the professionals and cons earlier than taking a ultimate name,” former BJP nationwide common secretary C T Ravi mentioned. “Till then, BJP will put together to contest all 28 LS seats within the state.”
Deve Gowda admitted that a part of the explanation for aligning with BJP was to “save” his social gathering within the face of “a scientific transfer by Congress to electorally remove JD(S)”. Son Kumaraswamy mentioned the motive behind the JD(S)-BJP alliance was “not our private ambition or energy, however to save lots of the folks of Karnataka from Congress’s maladministration”. “What ideology is Congress speaking of when the social gathering and INDIA lacked the essential courtesy to ask Deve Gowda, a stalwart of secular forces?” he mentioned, describing BJP as “a splinter of the erstwhile Janata Occasion”.
