Former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda on Tuesday blamed the opposition by a group of local Congress leaders for him not being invited to the meeting of the Opposition leaders in Bengaluru earlier this month.
“One group of the local Congress leaders threatened to boycott the Opposition leaders’ meet if I attended the event,” Mr. Gowda claimed at a press conference in Bengaluru on Tuesday.
“Nitish Kumar is my friend. When he suggested that I should be invited, a group in the Congress local unit threatened to boycott the event if I attend it,” he alleged. But he refused to divulge details on who opposed his participation. He said that veteran leader Sharad Pawar, who attended the Opposition leaders’ meeting, was going to support NDA.
