While cautiously distancing himself from the BJP, former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy trained his guns on the Congress wondering if it had any moral authority to comment on horse-trading of MLAs of other parties. The JD(S) leader’s barbs came a month after former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda won Rajya Sabha polls with the Congress backing, and the BJP not fielding a third candidate.
Kumaraswamy, whose party is now struggling for survival in Karnataka having been caught between the Congress and BJP, lashed out at the Congress questioning its claims over its actions. The former chief minister asked if luring all the BSP MLAs and merging the state unit into the Congress in Rajsthan was not a buyout.
His comments come in the wake of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress leaders led by president DK Shivakumar and Opposition leader Siddaramaiah leading an agitation in Bengaluru on Monday against the BJP’s alleged meddling in Rajasthan.
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Kumaraswamy asked: “Is merging the party which supported them a democratic behaviour? If you are dividing the like-minded party MLAs supporting through deceit who would support you. The Congress, he alleged, divided the JD(S) in the party. “Is it not a fact that for the sake of one Rajya Sabha seat, the Congress government in Karnataka purchased eight JD(S) MLAs? Didn't the Congress conspire to form a government after the 2018 Assembly polls by buying our MLAs?” The JD(S) leader alleged that the Congress was an expert in dividing political parties and purchasing MLAs.
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