Even though the BJP won the Mayoral polls in Mysuru by bagging both the post of Mayor and Deputy Mayor with the support of JD(S), the saffron party has refused to acknowledge that it is in an alliance with the JD(S).
While Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said the JD(S) had voted in favour of the BJP because it was aware of the maladministration of Mysuru under a Congress regime, the BJP leader Nirmal Kumar Surana, who was deputed as the party observer to the Mayoral polls in Mysuru sought to clarify that the party was not in any alliance with the JD(S).
Fielding reporters’ queries after the Mayoral polls, Mr. Surana said the BJP had not asked the JD(S) for support. The party fielded its candidates for both the posts of Mayor and Deputy Mayor and won both. Minister for Co-Operation S.T. Somashekar, who is also the Minister in charge of Mysuru district, claimed that the party’s strategy of remaining united paid dividends.
