Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister, D.K. Shivakumar said Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao stayed away from the Karnataka elections to save his image as all the surveys showed a landslide victory for the Congress.
“However, Mr. KCR extended all the support to the JD (S) in every form. Mr. KCR stayed away only fearing a dent in his image as Congress was coming back strongly,” he said at a press conference in Hyderabad today.
On the allegations that Mr. KCR tried to poach some Congress MLAs before the elections to unnerve the party, he said Mr. KCR has the habit of buying MLAs and he did it in Telangana quite brazenly. He tried it Karnataka too.
