The JD(S) supremo’s statement comes just two days after his son Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said that he is ‘in pain’ every day but has the responsibility of running the government smoothly.
News18.comUpdated:June 21, 2019, 11:47 AM IST facebookTwitterskype
‘Mid-Term Polls Are Imminent’: HD Deve Gowda Admits Cong-JD(S) Govt in Trouble File photo of HD Deve Gowda.
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New Delhi: In a surprising admission, Janata Dal (Secular) supremo HD Deve Gowda on Friday said that mid-term Assembly polls in the state are imminent as he is uncertain about how long the coalition government would last.
“I am not sure how long the coalition government will last. Going by the developments, in the past two months, mid-terms polls seem imminent. People can understand everything…let me see how things pan out,” he told a Kannada news channel.
Gowda’s statement comes just two days after his son Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said that he is “in pain” every day but has the responsibility of running the government smoothly.
The Congress-JD(S) government in Karnataka has been in deep waters since February as news emerged of the BJP, which holds the highest number of seats in the state Assembly, allegedly indulging in horse-trading.
The saffron party received a boost from the Lok Sabha results that were declared on May 23, which saw the BJP make a near clean sweep.
Following this, in an attempt to placate disgruntled lawmakers, the Kumaraswamy government decided to expand the cabinet, inducting two independents.
The two independent MLAs, R Shankar and H Nagesh, were inducted into the Ministry overlooking the claims of several senior leaders, particularly in the Congress, who are sulking ever since they failed to make it to the ministry earlier.
