Minister for Housing and Wakf Zameer Ahmed Khan has said that former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda agreed to the JD(S) party’s alliance with the BJP only because of his son and former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy.
In a press conference at Arsikere in Hassan district on Tuesday, Mr. Khan said that Mr. Deve Gowda was a secular person and that he would never want an alliance with the BJP.
“Mr. Deve Gowda has not accepted this alliance wholeheartedly. Only because of his son’s pressure on him, has he agreed to this alliance. He is a true secular person, and he has always shown concern for minorities,” he said.
