Alliance with BJP after polls depends on how they treat us, like to be Agri Minister: Kumaraswamy
Kumaraswamy has said he is sincerely working for NDA's better prospects in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and the continuation of alliance with BJP, after the parliamentary elections, will depend on how his party and its leaders are treated. The former Chief Minister further said that given an opportunity and if Prime Minister Narendra Modi has confidence in him, he wants to be the agriculture minister, in the event of NDA coming back to power at the Centre.
In an exclusive interview to PTI Videos, after filing his nomination from Mandya on Thursday, the state JD(S) President said: «We being part of the NDA depends on how our party leaders are treated in the future. We are sincerely working and we want a long-standing relationship with BJP. But ultimately we will take a decision depending on how we are treated and how much respect we get from the BJP.»
JD(S) headed by former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda joined the BJP-led NDA in September last year.
As part of the seat-sharing agreement, the BJP would contest in 25 constituencies and the JD(S) in the remaining three — Mandya, Hassan and Kolar — in Karnataka.
Kumaraswamy, son of Gowda, made no secret of his desire to become Union Agriculture Minister.
«It is not only the aspirations of people of Mandya to see me as union minister, even my BJP friends feel that it will be good for the state if I become a minister. I come from an agricultural background and given an opportunity I want to be the agriculture minister and bring a good name for the government. If the
