INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: The Janata Dal (Secular) of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda on Friday announced alliance with the BJP in Karnataka and
formally joined the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections
JD(S) leader and former Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy made the announcement after meeting Union home minister Amit Shah and BJP
chief J P Nadda in the national capital.Nadda welcomed the JD(S) into the NDA fold
" I am happy that JD(S) has decided to be the part of National Democratic Alliance
We wholeheartedly welcome them in the NDA
minister Pramod Sawant, who was present during the meeting, said the JD(S) has joined hands with the BJP to make the NDA stronger in
On the issue of seat sharing for the Lok Sabha elections, Sawant said the two parties will sit and decide on the issue
The Goa CM expressed confidence that the BJP will win all the seats in Karnataka in the next national elections."We still haven't got to the
roots of the alliance, about seat sharing and other things
We might take sometime, those things have not been discussed yet
This decision has been taken for the good of the people of Karnataka," said JD(S) leader Nikhil Kumaraswamy, who is the son of HDK
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had won 25 out of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in the state, while the JD(S) managed only one.The talks
about a possible alliance between the BJP and the JD(S) was doing the rounds ever since the Congress trounced both the parties in the
Karnataka assembly elections earlier this year
While the Congress won 135 seats, the BJP could manage only 66 and the JD(S) 19
The JD(S) suffered a huge blow as not only it's tally was reduced by almost half but the party also lost considerable vote share.The JD(S)
has long been a strong third player in the southern state where the Congress and the BJP have been the two main parties
