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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah connected Sunday (January 25, 2026) scoffed astatine the anticipation of the Janata Dal (Secular) coming to powerfulness successful Karnataka.
Responding to remarks by JD(S) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda — who had spoken of settling governmental scores “when their clip comes” against alleged attempts to undermine enactment person H.D. Revanna — Mr. Siddaramaiah said enactment against the JD(S) person had been taken strictly successful accordance with the law.
While stating that JD(S) was escaped to instrumentality enactment arsenic per instrumentality if it ever returned to power, Mr. Siddaramaiah questioned however the enactment could realistically unafraid power. He pointed retired that JD(S) had won lone 17 seats successful the past Assembly elections, portion the Congress had secured 136 seats — a fig that has since risen to 140.
Recalling his ain stint successful JD(S), helium said the enactment had won 59 seats successful the 2004 Assembly elections, but its spot had present fallen sharply to 17.
Mr. Siddaramaiah besides rejected JD(S) leaders’ claims that the determination party, on with its state the BJP, would hitch retired the Congress successful the adjacent elections, calling it specified “political rhetoric.”
He further questioned wherefore the BJP would let JD(S) to assertion the Chief Minister’s station if the saffron enactment were to triumph much seats than its ally.
