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Karnataka: JD(S) keeps Congress tie-up option open

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November 25, 2019

Bengaluru, Nov 25: Former chief minister and JD(S) Legislature Party leader HD Kumaraswamy on Sunday suggested his party has kept the option of a tie-up with the Congress open post the bypolls. He, however, denied he had promised to save the BJP government.

“My assurance to save the government does not mean I want to help the BJP regime,” Kumaraswamy said while campaigning for TN Javarayi Gowda in Yeshwantpur on Sunday. “While I have not specified which government the JD(S) would support, the answer would be known only after December 9, when the bypoll results are announced.”

Kumaraswamy had recently said his party could prop up the government if it fails to win the six seats it requires to stay in power. The JD(S) has 34 MLAs in the legislative assembly.

Kumaraswamy, however, sought to keep the other option of going back to the Congress open by suggesting the JD(S) will only state its position after the bypoll results. “Only those who know nuances of politics will understand what I am saying,” Kumaraswamy said.

Meanwhile, senior Congress leaders including legislature party leader Siddaramaiah and DK Shivakumar campaigned for Padmavathi Suresh in Hoskote. Both attacked former colleague MTB Nagaraj, the disqualified MLA contesting on a BJP ticket.

“Wealth has made Nagaraj arrogant,” Siddaramaiah said. “He is going around saying he lent me money. People must teach this defector a befitting lesson by defeating him.” Nagaraj is easily the wealthiest candidate in the fray, having declared assets of Rs 1,195 crore.

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January 12,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 12: Janata Dal (Secular) chief and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda on Sunday refuted reports of him contesting in the Rajya Sabha elections and added that he is more concerned about strengthening his party in Karnataka.

"I am not interested in going to Rajya Sabha. My concern is to build and strengthen the party in the region to the best of my ability. I had declared earlier that I will not contest elections anymore," Deve Gowda told ANI here.

"My party MP D Kupendra Reddy is there in the Rajya Sabha as of now and further decisions will be taken by the party. In March 2019, towards the end of the 16th Lok Sabha I had declared that I will not contest any more elections," Deve Gowda added.

Four Rajya Sabha seats in Karnataka are about to fall vacant in June this year as two of Congress, one of BJP and JD(S) MPs retire.

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February 9,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 9: Senior JD(S) leader and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda has called upon all the regional parties and secular parties to join hands with the Congress and work in tandem to take on the BJP.

Noting that mere speeches would not help, he said the regional and secular parties should enhance their strength politically in the country.

"We all need to join together with Congress and work in tandem with the available strength only then will we be able to stop them (the BJP)," the JD(S) supremo said at a public meeting organised by the party in Hassan district on Saturday.

Gowda cautioned the regional and secular parties against sitting idle watching the developments in the country.

"If the small and regional parties do not exercise the powers given by Dr B R Ambedkar to the country, they (BJP) are going to the extent of finishing them up," he said. Interestingly, the JD(S) patriarch, had in the run-up to the December bypolls to Karnataka assembly said he would not align with the Congress and dubbed it as "not trustworthy."

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April 3,2020

Mysuru/Chamarajanagara, Apr 3: In order to prevent the transmission of Novel Coronavirus though overcrowding, the central jails in Mysuru and Chamarajanagar have begun releasing some of their inmates.

As many as 55 undertrials and convicts were released from Mysuru jail since the last two days, while 18 were released from the prison in Chamarajanagar. The jail inmates had been released on interim bail, for a period of two months.

While the undertrials were facing charges that involved a maximum prison term of seven years, the convicts were facing criminal miscellaneous cases of the family court. Most of the convicts released were prisoners who had not paid the maintenance costs ordered by the family courts in divorce cases.

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