The Kerala unit of the Janata Dal (S) [JD(S)] on October 7 rejected the decision of its party supremo H. D. Deve Gowda to join hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and decided to continue its alliance with the ruling Left front in Kerala.
A meeting of the Kerala unit’s executive committee held in Kochi unanimously approved a resolution against the national leadership’s decision to forge an alliance with the BJP ahead of the Parliament elections in 2024.
“The Kerala unit of the Janata Dal (S) will continue its four-and-a-half decades of alliance with the Left front as it is committed to the ideals of secularism, socialism and democracy. There was no discussion or decision taken at the party’s organisational level to join hands with the BJP. We were not convinced by the reasons pointed out by Mr. Deve Gowda in his decision to partner with the BJP,” according to Mathew T. Thomas, MLA and Kerala president of the JD(S).
