As the Kolar parliamentary seat has become a bone of contention between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Janata Dal (Secular), the latter has convened an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss the issue.
While the JD(S) had been claiming for over two months that it would get Hassan, Mandya, and Kolar seats as its share in the arrangement between the coalition partners, issues have cropped up in the Kolar reserved constituency.
The JD(S) sources say the party now believes that “invisible hands” in the local BJP unit are at work in foisting a candidate, an influential former Minister from Bengaluru, for the seat. The development comes a day after the former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi where the issue came for discussion.
