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‘Third Front giving stiff fight to Congress and BJP in Karnataka’

TIRUPATI: O.V. Ramana who was recently nominated the national general secretary of the Janatha Dal (S) has said that the party leading the Third Front in Karnataka is locked in a fierce contest with Congress and the BJP in 25 out of 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state.

Ramana, hailing from Tirupati and a close follower of the JD (S) president Deve Gowda said the CPI (M) and the CPI, the alliance partners of JD (S), contesting a seat each in the State also are giving a stiff fight to the anti-people Congress and the communal BJP parties.

Talking to The Hindu on Sunday he said that the BJP government in the State led by Yedyurappa was facing an acute anti-incumbency problem in less than six months of coming to power, plagued as it were by problems like communal tension, corruption, internal bickering etc.

Similarly, he said the fact that the Congress had lost its deposit in all the seats it contested in the recent by-elections in the state clearly reflected the dire straits the party was in.

All this, he pointed out, was making the people of the state think that in retrospect the Kumaraswamy government itself was far better than the ‘inept’ BJP government.

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