The stage has been set for former minister and JD(S) MLA GT Deve Gowda to share the stage with former chief minister Siddaramaiah in Chamundeshwari assembly constituency on November 9.
The coming together of Mr. Siddaramaiah and Mr. Gowda on the same platform, even before his formal entry into the Congress, holds political significance in the region and is reminiscent of the pre-2006 days of the JD(S). Both the leaders belonged to the same party.
A fierce face-off between the JD(S) and the Congress during the 2018 assembly elections in Chamundeshwari, Mr. Gowda famously defeated Mr. Siddaramaiah.
Mr Gowda, who has been keeping a distance from the JD(S) leadership since the collapse of the Congress-JD(S) alliance more than two years ago, confirmed his participation in the inauguration of the Dr BR Ambedkar Bhavan. Inauguration of Kenchappa Community Hall at Keragalli in Hinkle as well as Chamundeshwari constituency, which will be attended by Mr. Siddaramaiah on November 9.
Mr Gowda told reporters that he was invited by the organizers of two events in Chamundeshwari constituency and had agreed to participate.
Although Mr. Gowda said that he and Mr. Siddaramaiah shared the stage at events in the constituency when the latter was the chief minister and he was an MLA, the two enemy-friends would appear together on the same stage for the first time. Since the 2018 assembly elections.
Mr Gowda has already made public his plans to join the Congress, but the JD(S) is proposing to the MLA from Chamundeshwari assembly constituency to remain in the party. The meeting of JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil Kumaraswamy with Mr. Gowda’s son Harish Gowda at Chamundeshwari temple in Chamundi Hills was interpreted as part of the JD(S)’s efforts to retain Mr. Gowda in the party. Is.
Mr Gowda did not find it difficult to justify his absence from events attended by Mr Kumaraswamy in the Chamundeshwari constituency in recent times, even though he is technically in the JD(S). He claimed that he was not invited to the events in which Mr Kumaraswamy attended, while he was invited to the events where Mr Siddaramaiah, who is the leader of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP), was attending on 9 November. Huh.
Meanwhile, political observers recall the JD(S) days before 2006, when Mr Gowda and Mr Siddaramaiah were in the same party with leaders such as former minister HC Mahadevappa and the former MLA representing Periyapatna’s Venkatesh. Even though many leaders had followed Mr. Siddaramaiah in the Congress, Mr. Gowda remained steadfast in his support for the JD(S). With Mr. Gowda also joining the Congress, the party is expected to get a big lead in the Mysore region.
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