Deve Gowda says, No truck with Congress in assembly poll

Mangaluru, Jan 22 The JD(S) would have no appointive comprehension with the decision Congress in the coming Karnataka gathering race as it had "consumed its fingers" in the past lining up with the national party, previous Prime Minister and gathering president H D Deve Gowda said today.

The Janata Dal (Secular) had "consumed its fingers" in the past lining up with the Congress, he told reporters here, including that his gathering was likewise not inspired by framing a legislature with the Congress' help if the outcomes hurled such a likelihood.

The Congress and the BJP were "just talking about shared issues" and were turning a visually impaired eye to individuals' issues, including the issues being looked by farmers, he said.

Gowda said the JD-S would challenge in all the 224 get together seats in the state, of which a few seats would be saved for the Left parties.

The gathering had not yet chosen whether to look for the help of the Social Democratic Party of India, which had sponsored it in the last decisions.

On the disputable explanations made by Union priest Ananth Kumar Hegde on the Constitution and Dalits, Gowda said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should control his pastors.

He said the JD-S had presented a protest to the gathering Speaker to preclude two of its MLAs, who had abandoned and joined the BJP as of late.