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In an exclusive interaction with Times Network's Neha Hebbale, HD Kumaraswamy explained JD(S) strategy for the upcoming Assembly elections, before criticising the BJP's 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. Friday's meeting with him is likely to be Banerjee's 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.