Yediyurappa, Kumaraswamy will decide on pact for Council polls: Deve Gowda
The Hindu
‘There has been no decision on the continuity of support for the next elections’
The former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa publicly seeking the Janata Dal (Secular) support for its candidates in the Legislative Council elections, which had raised interest in political circles, now seems to be heading to a logical conclusion. Breaking his silence, JD(S) patriarch H.D. Deve Gowda on Tuesday confirmed in Delhi that the former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy and Mr. Yediyurappa were in talks and would decide on the issue soon.
This came on a day when Mr. Gowda met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which was officially to urge the latter to set up an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Hassan.
The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.