Alliance necessary to save regional party: HD Deve Gowda on JD(S)-BJP 2024 election tie-up talks

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leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Delhi, in the interest of Karnataka and to save his party, the PTI reported on Sunday. The JD(S) supremo said the seat sharing between the two parties for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections was not discussed during his recent visit to the national capital, and his son and party leader H.D. Kumaraswamy will be holding discussions with the BJP leadership and decide regarding poll understanding.

"It is being criticised (by Congress leaders) that Deve Gowda went and met someone in Delhi. Yes, this party needs to be saved. I have worked forty years for this party.

I saved this party even when Kumaraswamy went with BJP (forming alliance government in 2006)," PTI quoted the former prime minister as saying. Addressing JD(S) workers meeting in Bengaluru, The JD(S) supremo said, "Yes, I contacted BJP leaders in Delhi, not for Deve Gowda to become Prime Minister once again. To save this party, a regional party that I have nurtured for 40 years....Yes, I met Modi, when BJP leaders themselves expressed desire to meet me.

It is true that I spoke to them, but I have not asked for any seat." The JD(S) supremo said, on 2024 Lok Sabha elections seat sharing issue, Kumaraswamy will discuss with Prime Minister Modi and other BJP leaders, on how many seats they will give and how many the regional party will take, and decide. "There is nothing to hide." "Modi respects me, and so does the Home Minister (Amit Shah), they know my behaviour. I did not ask for any number of seats.

I have explained the situation in every segment. Kumaraswamy and they will sit and decide. I have that confidence," Gowda reported as saying.