The Hindu : Deve Gowda urged to take steps for merger

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Sunday, Dec 28, 2003

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Southern States - Karnataka

Deve Gowda urged to take steps for merger

By Our Staff Correspondent

MANGALORE DEC. 27. The President of the State unit of the All-India Progressive Janata Dal (AIPJD), K.N. Nage Gowda, said today that the merger of Janata Dal factions was entirely in the hands of the President of the Janata Dal (S), H.D. Deve Gowda, and appealed to the former Prime Minister to use his political power to achieve the merger.

Addressing presspersons here, Mr. Nage Gowda said Mr. Deve Gowda was the supreme leader of the JD(S), and he commanded his party's destiny. But the AIPJD had many leaders. Mr. Deve Gowda had agreed to give a formula for the merger before December 31, and he should keep the promise. He should adopt a broad perspective of issues for the merger to take place. The AIPJD could not wait after December 31 for a formula as it had to start identifying itself as an independent party and take up party-building activities for the next elections. Talks with like-minded parties for the formation of a progressive alliance in the State had begun.

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