BJP-JD(S) seal alliance for 2024 LS Elections; Amit Shah agrees to part with 4 seats to Deve Gowda’s party
The BJP and the JD(S) have finally sealed their alliance for the ensuing 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka. This was confirmed by the BJP leader and former chief minister BS Yediyurappa on Friday. He furthered added that he agreement is for four seats, and Amit Shah has agreed to it.
Reportedly, the JD(S) supremo HD Deve Gowda recently met BJP chief JP Nadda and Union Home MinisterAmit Shah and amid the meeting there was an indication that BJP and the JD(S) would walk into an alliance.
Earlier JD(S) had sealed their alliance with the Congress and formed the government with HD Kumaraswamy as the chief minister. The government was ousted after it lost the trust vote in 2019, a year after it came to power.
As per reports, JDS wanted to contest from Mandya, Hassan, Tumakuru, Chickballapur and Bengaluru Rural. BJP agreed to let it contest on four seats — Kolar, Hassan, Mandya and Bengaluru rural.
The move comes days following Deve Gowda’s claim that his party was neither with the INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) nor with the NDA. JD(S), would fight the Lok Sabha elections independently.
As per Deve Gowda, once an ally of the Congress, though unnatural, JDS wasn’t invited to the INDIA meeting held in Bengaluru. Some of the Karnataka Congress leaders did not want him and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is his good friend but, since Congress never want him , skipped. This comes after
Deve Gowda said when the second meeting of the opposition alliance was held in the city.
A meeting was held on Wednesday at the residence of Deve Gowda to seek the opinion of the party functionaries on the prospective alliance. Most leaders have given their opinion in favour of an alliance with the BJP.
In 2019 Lok Sabha election, JDS won Hassan where Deve Gowda’s grand nephew Prajwal Revanna contested.
News Edit K.V.Raman
