‘Kumaraswamy refused offer of support from PM Modi in 2019’
The Hindu
New biography of Deve Gowda claims offer of a coalition government between the two parties
Last week, pictures of former Prime Minister Deve Gowda calling on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the latter’s office in Parliament set off speculation that the BJP and the Janata Dal (S) headed by Mr. Gowda were exploring a tie-up for the elections to 25 seats in the Karnataka Legislative Council that were later held on December 10.
While no formal tie-ups were announced by either the JD(S) or the BJP after that very public meeting, a new biography of Mr. Gowda — Furrows in a Field : The Unexplored Life of Deve Gowda (Penguin Vintage) — by journalist Sugata Srinivasraju claims that a bigger offer of a coalition Government between the two parties was made by Prime Minister Modi to Mr. Gowda’s son, former Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy at a pull aside chat during a meeting at the NITI Aayog in New Delhi in early 2019.
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