Even though the party leadership is strongly in favour of the Janata Dal (Secular) aligning with the BJP in the coming Lok Sabha elections, former Minister G.T. Deve Gowda, who heads the party’s core committee, said the party supremo and former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda is yet to take a final decision on going with the saffron party.
Speaking to reporters in Mysuru on Friday, Mr. Gowda, who is also a JD(S) MLA representing Chamundeshwari Assembly segment in Mysuru, said the party legislators and former legislators, besides other leaders, who attended a recent meeting in Bengaluru, had unanimously sought an alliance with the BJP in the coming Lok Sabha polls, citing “highhandedness” of the Congress leaders in various constituencies of the State.
