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What prompted Deve Gowda’s JD(S) to join NDA for 2024 Lok Sabha election
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- Sep 23, 2023
What prompted Deve Gowda’s JD(S) to join NDA for 2024 Lok Sabha election
BJP insiders say party will contest in 24-25 LS seats, while JD(S) get 3-4 seats. This is 2nd time the two parties have joined hands, the 1st being in 2006 when they formed govt in Karnataka.
The Janata Dal (Secular) Friday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance, paving the way for a pre-poll alliance in Karnataka in the next year’s parliamentary election .
With the Congress eating into the votebanks of both these parties in the southern state, the two parties joined forces for a common objective — the BJP seeking to retain its 2019 Lok Sabha tally of 25 seats and the H.D. Deve Gowda-led JD(S) winning a few seats in parliamentary elections to arrest the slide in its political fortunes in its home state.
This is the second time that the two parties are joining hands after 2006 when they formed the government in Karnataka. At that time, Deve Gowda was hospitalised over the betrayal of his son H. D. Kumaraswamy to ally with what he called a communal outfit. However, this time around, the alliance talks had the JD(S) patriarch’s blessings and formal approval.
Though the two parties have so far been reluctant to admit the possibility of a pre-poll alliance, the Friday announcement not just formalises it but also sets the tone for the 2024 general election in which the BJP is hoping to repeat its 2019 performance — 25 out of the 28 total parliamentary seats.
According to sources, JD(S) had proposed to contest from four Lok Sabha seats of Hassan, Bengaluru Rural, Mandya and Chikballapur.
“Union home minister Amit Shah and PM Modi have participated in several rounds of talks. Amit Shah ji had at that time given green signal for giving these seats to JD(S),” said a BJP leader.
After the loss in the Karnataka election, the BJP has been adopting the strategy of expanding its alliance partners. In Karnataka, the matter was stuck on seat distribution, BJP sources
According to the sources, following this pre-poll alliance, a meeting between H.D. Deve Gowda and Prime Minister Narendra Modi may also take place. Party leaders aware of the developments that the BJP will contest in 24-25 seats while the JD(S) will be given 3-4 seats.
This is the second time that the two parties are joining hands after 2006 when they formed the government in Karnataka. At that time, Deve Gowda was hospitalised over the betrayal of his son H. D. Kumaraswamy to ally with what he called a communal outfit. However, this time around, the alliance talks had the JD(S) patriarch’s blessings and formal approval.
Though the two parties have so far been reluctant to admit the possibility of a pre-poll alliance, the Friday announcement not just formalises it but also sets the tone for the 2024 general election in which the BJP is hoping to repeat its 2019 performance — 25 out of the 28 total parliamentary seats.
According to sources, JD(S) had proposed to contest from four Lok Sabha seats of Hassan, Bengaluru Rural, Mandya and Chikballapur.
“Union home minister Amit Shah and PM Modi have participated in several rounds of talks. Amit Shah ji had at that time given green signal for giving these seats to JD(S),” said a BJP leader.
After the loss in the Karnataka election, the BJP has been adopting the strategy of expanding its alliance partners. In Karnataka, the matter was stuck on seat distribution, BJP sources
According to the sources, following this pre-poll alliance, a meeting between H.D. Deve Gowda and Prime Minister Narendra Modi may also take place. Party leaders aware of the developments that the BJP will contest in 24-25 seats while the JD(S) will be given 3-4 seats.
