Former Minister defends party supporters’ performance in MYMUL polls despite poor show JD(S) supporters fielded in MYMUL polls to counter GTD’s “conspiracy” to finish party, claims S R Mahesh (Laiqh A Khan) Former Minister S.R. Mahesh said he had fielded supporters of the JD(S) in the recently concluded elections to Mysuru District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Societies’ Union Ltd (MYMUL) to counter the alleged designs of former Minister G.T. Deve Gowda to ‘finish’ the party in the district. Addressing a press conference, a day after the syndicate led by Mr. Gowda bagged 12 out of the 15 posts of Directors in the MYMUL elections held on Tuesday, Mr. Mahesh said the party supporters would have won two more seats had 86 votes not been declared as invalid. Though it had very little time to prepare for the elections, Mr. Mahesh said he was satisfied that the JD(S) supporters had won three seats and claimed that the party had begun sowing seeds for its presence in the cooperative sector of the district.