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Congress should realise that Rahul Gandhi-centric politics will only create more issues. A person with zero empathy for the allies cannot be the centre of the Opposition alliance

Asked about the Opposition unity ahead of the 2024 general elections, JDS patriarch HD Deve Gowda said that Congress should set its house in order. He called the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi 'very unfortunate'.

Amid the buzz around forging opposition unity ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Janata Dal (Secular) patriarch and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda said on Sunday that the Congress should set its house in order first.

Amid the buzz around forging opposition unity ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Janata Dal (Secular) patriarch and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda said on Sunday that the Congress should set its house in order first.

West Bengal CM and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee had also recently announced that the party would go it alone in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

In an exclusive interaction with Times Networks Neha Hebbale, HD Kumaraswamy explained JD(S) strategy for the upcoming Assembly elections, before criticising the BJPs reservation policy. He said BJP made the childish announcement without applying mind. Excerpts.

If the party continues to dream of recovering lost glory on its own, and to regard every party that has ousted it from dominance anywhere in the country as its enemy, then the remaining  regional parties will be left with no option but to form a Third Front to fight Modi’s BJP.

Kumaraswamy attended the meeting of opposition parties convened by Mamata in January 2019 ahead of the LS polls that year. Fridays meeting with him is likely to be Banerjees third meeting with a non-BJP, non-Congress party leader within a week. 

BJP hastily disqualified Rahul Gandhi as a Lok Sabha member after realising that allowing him inside the Parliament once again will “lead to a crisis” for the Union Government, which failed to answer questions raised by him on the floor of the House, DMK President M K Stalin alleged on Friday. 

Opposition leaders on Friday came out in support of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the wake of his disqualification as a member of the Lok Sabha, calling it a "black day" for Indian democracy.