“I built the JD(S), but I am here (with the Congress) now. When I was the JD(S) State president, it had won 59 Assembly seats. Now, its strength has reduced to 18. In the next elections, its tally will get reduced to a mere two or three,” said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in the Legislative Assembly, on the last day of the Monsoon Session.
Declaring that the Congress would never again have any tie-up with the JD(S), a party he had a long association with, Mr. Siddaramaiah said: “The JD(S) has become a political untouchable after it joined hands with the BJP.”
