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Bengaluru : Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah denied reports of differences between himself and the party’s state president DK Shivakumar, saying the Congress will form the next government. Along with this, he has also alleged that there is a secret agreement between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal Secular (JDS), but only we will win the election.
Congress will win on 130 seats
In an interview to the English newspaper Hindustan Times, former Chief Minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah said that he and DK Shivakumar are working as a team and Congress will register victory in the upcoming elections to be held on May 10. He has also predicted that the Congress will win more than 130 seats in this election. Along with this, he also said that BJP will be reduced to 60 to 65 and JDS 20 to 25 seats.
Deve Gowda’s claims denied
Siddaramaiah alleged that there was a secret agreement between former Prime Minister and JDS leader HD Deve Gowda and Prime Minister Narendra Modi (BJP-JDS). He said that at this time both of them have not stopped praising each other. The Kuruba leader refuted former prime minister and Janata Dal Secular) leader HD Deve Gowda’s claim that he was responsible for toppling the 2018 JDS-Congress government led by Deve Gowda’s son HD Kumaraswamy.
Kumaraswamy was running the government from the hotel
Who was responsible for the fall of the Congress-JDS coalition government in Karnataka? In response to this question, he said that at that time the Chief Minister of Karnataka was HD Kumaraswamy and he stayed in the Taj Westend Hotel for 14 months. How can one run the government from a hotel. The MLAs were fed up with him. Apart from our party’s 14 MLAs, three JDS MLAs joined the BJP. After this the coalition government came in minority. Now who can be responsible for this is well known.
Will not contest elections after 80
Regarding continuing in active politics, he said that after the age of 80, he would retire from electoral politics. He said that I am 76 years old now. After five years I will be 81 years old. After that I will be in active politics, but will not contest elections.
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