Bengaluru:
With the clock ticking for Lok Sabha election, the BJP has sealed the seat-sharing deal with the Janata Dal (Secular) in Karnataka. The HD Deve Gowda-led party, it is learnt, has managed to secure three seats as part of the seat-sharing arrangement.
The JDS will be contesting Karnataka’s Mandya, Hassan and Kolar seats, sources have said. Also, in Bengaluru rural, Mr Deve Gowda’s CN Manjunath, will contest on the BJP’s lotus symbol.
The announcement comes days after JDS leaders expressed their concerns to the party leadership after the BJP announced candidates for 20 out of the state’s 28 Lok Sabha seats.
In their meeting with former Prime Minister Deve Gowda and his son and senior JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy, the leaders said that the BJP leaders were not taking them into confidence in their planning for the upcoming election.
BJP leaders, they said, were not calling them to any meeting and that this was harmful for the party.
