Karnataka poll: Is the BJP-JD(S) have a pact?

Bangaluru: The BJP and JD(S) on Monday denied allegations made by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of a secret meeting on board an aircraft on April 13 between BJP national president Amit Shah and JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy.

Reiterating that Janata Dal(S) State president H.D. Kumaraswamy and BJP national president Amit Shah met in Delhi, he asserted that he has proof of it which he would release at an appropriate time. He said that the BJP and the Janata Dal(S) have entered into an internal pact. Karnataka will go to polls on May 12 to elect representatives to the 225-member state assembly. The results will be out on May 15.

Meanwhile, the Karnataka wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday filed a complaint against Independent MLA Jignesh Mevani and actor Prakash Raj with the Chief Electoral Officer for ‘having used defamatory and abusive language’ against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Party’s chief ministerial candidate BS Yeddyurappa.

In the complaint letter, the BJP accused Mevani of calling Prime Minister Modi ‘a corporate salesman and a thief.’

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“Jignesh Mevani in his speech at an event on April 29 in Bengaluru called our honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi a corporate salesman and a thief who has looted the country,” the letter read.

Siasat Web Team