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BJP misleading public: Kumaraswamy

Inspection: The former Chief Minister, H.D. Kumaraswamy looking at a collapsed house in the flood-affected Kallimath Oni in Navalgund taluk on Friday.

HUBLI: Expressing “concern” at the speed with which the BJP was preparing itself for elections, the former Chief Minister, H.D. Kumaraswamy, said it might lead to accident.

He was speaking to presspersons on board the Volvo bus, after visiting some of the flood-affected villages in Navalgund taluk of Dharwad district on Friday.

The former Chief Minister alleged that the BJP leaders were giving a wrong picture of the power transfer issue to win public sympathy.

To a query, Mr. Kumaraswamy said the former Prime Minister, H.D. Deve Gowda, was never a party to the arrangement between the BJP and the Janata Dal (S). Even BJP State president D.V. Sadananda Gowda on several occasions had categorically stated that there was no need for holding negotiations with Mr. Deve Gowda, he said.

It was the BJP leaders who wanted to talk to Mr. Deve Gowda and not the former Prime Minister, he clarified. “It is a well-orchestrated drama that the BJP leaders were playing before the public,” he remarked.

Taking a dig at B. Sriramulu, who was Minister in charge of Gadag district when it was affected by floods, Mr. Kumaraswamy said instead of touring the State for political reasons, the BJP leaders should introspect on what their partymen had done when people were suffering.

To a question, Mr. Kumaraswamy said he was not visiting the flood-affected places keeping elections in mind. “More than the power transfer issue, the people in villages want somebody to respond to their problems and mine is an attempt towards that,” he stated.

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