Former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, who quit BJP and joined the Congress before the Assembly elections in Karnataka, said that Opposition unity was vital if the BJP was to be thwarted in the next year’s general elections.
He was speaking at a seminar on the 16th Assembly Elections: Impact, Results and Future Political Repercussions, organised by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Research and Extension Centre, University of Mysore, here on Saturday, June 10.
Mr. Shettar said there was a time when it was Congress versus all political parties but in recent times, it is the BJP versus the rest. A united Opposition then fought the Congress and dislodged it but today, there was a question mark on the unity of the Opposition parties in the absence of which it will be difficult to vote out the BJP, Mr. Shettar added.
