Karnataka polls: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi announces support for JD(S)

AIMIM to support JD(S) in Karnataka polls, not to field candidates.
Karnataka polls: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi announces support for JD(S)
Karnataka polls: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi announces support for JD(S)
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All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen Party chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday announced that his party will not field candidates in the upcoming Karnataka elections.

Addressing the media, Owaisi said it was in the interest of Karnataka and the country that a non-BJP, non-Congress government comes to power. The state goes to polls on May 12.

He said, “After due consideration and consultation, we have taken the decision that in the forthcoming Karnataka elections, our party will be supporting the JD(S) party. All our efforts and endeavours will be to ensure that JD(S) gets the maximum number of seats. Kumaraswamy should become the Chief Minister and the party led by Deve Gowda should be ruling Karnataka. And we feel that the two national parties have failed to live up to the aspirations and hopes of the people of Karnataka and that is why we decided to support the JD(S) completely. And we will not be putting our candidates and I’ve spoken to Mr Kumaraswamy and I’ve assured him my support to his party and to him. He has thanked me and wherever it is possible for me to go and address public meetings, my party members and myself will go and address. I hope that the people of Karnataka will once again repose faith in the JD(S) so that a qualitative change can be brought in in Karnataka. And it is in the interest of Karnataka, in the interest of the nation, that a non-Congress, non-BJP government comes into power both in Karnataka and subsequently whenever the Parliament elections are held.”

According to News18, Owaisi had reportedly approached Deve Gowda for a seat-sharing agreement, which was turned down by the JD(S) supremo and former Prime Minister.

The party had earlier indicated that they had identified a few constituencies in north Karnataka where they would contest from.

Owaisi’s move may benefit JD(S)’s chief ministerial candidate H D Kumaraswamy, who will be contesting from Ramanagara, a district dominated by the Vokkaliga and the Muslim community.

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