Ex-PM Deve Gowda campaigns for grandson, says Nikhil Kumaraswamy will end ‘bad politics’ in Karnataka

“Due to your blessings, I don’t cognize whether I volition unrecorded to beryllium 100. But I volition unrecorded to spot my grandson make the constituency,” the 91-year aged said astatine his maiden run lawsuit for the bypolls.

Gowda said that if elected, Kumaraswamy would enactment an extremity to the “bad politics” successful Karnataka. “In my six-decade-long governmental career, I person not witnessed specified atrocious authorities before. I americium requesting the youth, mothers and seniors to guarantee that specified atrocious authorities should not stay successful the state,” helium said, attacking the ruling Congress.

These words did not stem from “jealousy, vengeance oregon travel with an nonsubjective to marque idiosyncratic attacks”, Gowda said, adding that the Government did not adjacent cognize however to respect the words of the Leader of the Opposition. “It is simply a tragedy,” helium said.

Noting that helium had 1 and a fractional years near successful his tenure arsenic a Rajya Sabha member, Gowda assured that helium would enactment with the 17 NDA MPs from the authorities to guarantee h2o information for Bengaluru and surrounding regions. “Tamils person cheated us, my struggles volition beryllium to guarantee drinking h2o to Bengaluru,” helium said, hitting retired astatine the neighbouring authorities implicit the Cauvery h2o dispute.

Gowda is scheduled to code 4 run events.

Leader of the Opposition R Ashoka took a excavation astatine Yogeshwar for ditching the BJP-JD(S) conjugation astatine the past moment. The BJP person said helium had gone to Delhi to question a summons for Yogeshwar arsenic helium was keen to contention the polls.

Union curate and JD(S) person H D Kumaraswamy had asked Yogeshwar to beryllium a campaigner of his enactment but the second insisted connected a BJP ticket, Ashoka said. He added that adjacent though the conjugation partners were good with the demand, the erstwhile curate had already decided to discontinue the NDA.

Nikhil Kumaraswamy, who is contesting his 3rd election, attacked Congress leaders for criticising him aft helium shed tears astatine a run event. “Many mock my tears, but lone those with humanity and emotions shed tears. The hard-hearted don’t. I person endured a lot,” helium said.

Nikhil, lad of H D Kumaraswamy, unsuccessfully contested his maiden predetermination successful 2019, losing the Lok Sabha predetermination successful Mandya to autarkic campaigner Sumalatha. In the 2023 Assembly polls, helium was defeated by the Congress’s Iqbal Hussain successful the Ramanagara constituency.