HD Deve Gowda Targets Siddaramaiah Over Collapse Of Coalition Government

Bengaluru: JDS patriarch HD Deve Gowda has indicated the Congress-JDS coalition government in Karnataka collapsed because the national party's high command decided to make his son HD Kumaraswamy the chief minister without consulting its leader Siddaramaiah.

Continuing to target Siddaramaiah, the former prime minister termed the Congress high command decision 'wrong', a day after he had alleged that a few Congress friends wanted to unseat the coalition government as they could not see Kumaraswamy as chief minister.

"I have clearly said that without taking Siddaramaiah, who was chief minister for five years, into confidence Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi all of a sudden came and said Kumaraswamy is the next chief minister, it was their wrong decision," Gowda told reporters on Thursday.