Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Mar 25: Karnataka deputy chief minister and Congress leader G Parameshwara has requested the Tumakuru sitting MP SP Muddahanumegowda to ‘obey the coalition dharma.’

Parameshwara who was reportedly upset earlier on Tumakuru constituency being given to JD(S) told reporters in Bengaluru on Sunday, “We have to follow high command's order that gave 8 seats to JD(S). If HD Deve Gowda changes his mind, please give this seat to us.”

Trouble started brewing in the constituency after JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda gave his traditional constituency of Hassan to his grandson Prajwal Revanna and declared that he would be contesting from the Lok Sabha constituency of Tumakuru.

However, before the seat sharing, the Congress had taken a resolution to give the sitting MPs a chance. Muddahanumegowda, who was upset that his constituency was handed over to JD(S), decided to contest as either a Congress candidate or as an independent from Tumakuru.

"Though my party (Congress) conceded my constituency (Tumakuru) to the JD(S) as part of the seat-sharing arrangement, I have decided to re-contest in response to the demand from thousands of my supporters and cadre," Muddahanumegowda told reporters here on Saturday, March 23.

He also decided to file his nomination on Monday, March 25, the same day as the filing of nomination by Deve Gowda.

Meanwhile, DCM Parameshwara was also upset that the high command gave up Tumakuru and this was allegedly the reason he remained absent from the joint press conference held by JD(S) and Congress as show of unity on March 19.

However, now it seems that the DCM is trying to pacify the disgruntled MP with an aim to save the coalition, while still hoping that the JD(S) supremo changes his mind.