New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said it made a “wrong assessment” in forging an alliance with the Janata Dal (Secular) in Karnataka, and made it clear that it was ready to face mid-term elections if the power-sharing agreement between the two parties was not honoured.
Senior leader M. Venkaiah Naidu, who played a key role in clinching the alliance, said he believed Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy’s words that he had “non-Congress blood” in him when he parted ways with that party and with his father H.D. Deve Gowda 20 months ago.
“We don’t consider it a mistake ... We have made a wrong assessment. That can be the correct description,” Mr. Naidu told Karan Thapar’s “Devil’s Advocate” programme for CNN-IBN.
He was asked whether he thought that the alliance with the JD (S) was a mistake.
“If they agree as per the agreement, fine; otherwise let there be elections. I can tell you the BJP will become victorious and Yediyurappa will become the next Chief Minister,” he said claiming that the mood among the people in Karnataka was in favour of the BJP. — PTI
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