Bangalore: Kumaraswamy Pledges to Intensify Fight Against State Government

Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (SP)

Bangalore, Jan 5: JDS state president and former Karnataka Chief Minister, H D Kumaraswamy, said that the zilla and taluk panchayat election results have not been up to the expectations of the party leadership. Speaking to news persons from Dubai, where is on a visit with family, he said on Tuesday January 4, that his party will intensify its fight against the corrupt government in the state till it is doomed. At the same time, he expressed disappointment at the fact that the disinterestedness of the Congress to strike an alliance with the JDS gave BJP the opportunity to show better performance in some districts.

Kumaraswamy, who has of late been on a warpath with the Chief Minister, Yeddyyurappa, after a coup supported by him, staged by the BJP legislators, failed to topple the government. While the results of the taluk and zillal panchayat elections have come as a dampener for the BJP, they have also not thrown up an occasion to celebrate for the Congress and the JDS either, as these parties too have faltered to muster enough numbers in a number of zilla and taluk panchayats.

“The BJP claimed that it would come to power in at least 25 of the 30 zilla panchayats in the state. It has been able to win in 12 districts, only with a slender majority. Even in Shimoga district, bastion of Yeddyurappa, BJP struggled to put up a respectable show. This government is sure to fall, and in the next assembly election, BJP will prove to be a non-entity in the state. The people will express their frustration against the BJP in the assembly election,” Kumaraswamy predicted.

Kumaraswamy said that he had sensed a pro-JDS wave during electioneering, and the party had hoped to come to power in about ten districts, which did not happen.  He confessed that in Mysore district, the party suffered setbacks because of some wrong decisions, and that in a few seats, the party candidates lost by a handful of votes. He also lamented about the poor showing of the party in districts like Kolar, Bangalore Rural, Koppal, and Raichur districts.

He expressed hope that the Congress will at least realize now that if it had struck an electoral understanding with the JDS, the BJP would not have come to power in more than three to four zilla panchayats. He wanted the top leadership of that party to introspect on this position and take up corrective steps at least henceforth.

Kumaraswamy felt that convening of an assembly session by the government and its Chief Minister has lost relevance because of the fact that both of them are corrupt. He accused the BJP of planning to suspend 15 opposition legislators to have its way, and said that the opposition parties will not allow this to happen.