BANGALORE: Dissidence in the Janata Dal (Secular) Legislature Party appears to have boiled over following Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy's patient hearing to the grievances of party legislators at a meeting here on Thursday.

Party sources told The Hindu that the meeting was called to dispel rumours that there was resentment among some legislators over the leadership. None of the 45 legislators who had attended the meeting voiced their anger over the leadership, it is stated. All legislators, barring Santosh Lad and Zameer Ahmed, who had sought permission to be away from Bangalore, were present.

In a way, the meeting ended as a damp squib as the legislators complained mainly of indifference to development works and lack of response to their requests for transfer and posting of government officials.

They expressed their loyalty to the JD(S) and H.D. Deve Gowda. Mr. Kumaraswamy told presspersons that there was no dissident activity in the party and it was a figment of imagination of some rival parties and a section of the media."It is a malicious campaign to destabilise the coalition Government.

The meeting was held to prepare a strategy to counter such moves," he said. President of State unit M.P. Prakash said the meeting expressed its solidarity with the Chief Minister. There was no truth in the statement that the Janata Dal (S) MLAs were for a change in the leadership.

The Chief Minister said not even one legislator spoke against him or against any Minister. Mr. Kumaraswamy said a section of the media was placing hurdles in his mission to improve the quality of life of the people of the State and Bangalore in particular. "We are united and the Government will last its full term," he said

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