The State politics is hotting up as the former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy and newly appointed BJP State president B.Y. Vijayendra on Sunday discussed strategies for the legislature session to be held in Belagavi from December 4 and the coming Lok Sabha elections.
While the meeting of the two leaders, held at the Bidadi farmhouse of Mr. Kumaraswamy, was termed as a courtesy call, the two are learnt to have discussed political developments in the State. This is the first meeting of the two leaders after Mr. Vijayendra took over as the BJP State president. The BJP leader had earlier met the Janata Dal (Secular) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda.
The two leaders exuded confidence over the performance of the BJP-JD(S) alliance in the Lok Sabha elections and claimed that the alliance would win all the 28 seats in Karnataka.