People tired of Cong, BJP, looking for a change: HD Kumarswamy

Mysuru: Mocking state BJP chief B.S. Yeddyurappa and CM  Siddaramaiah’s talk of becoming CM again, state JD(S) chief  H.D. Kumarswamy claimed on Monday that going by his tour of the state it appeared  people were tired of both the parties and were looking for a change.

“I have felt the pulse of the people during my state- wide tour, and they are considering giving us an opportunity,” he said, participating in a media interaction hosted by the Mysuru District Journalists’ Association here on Monday. 

Asserting that his party would win 113 seats, he claimed the Congress was facing dissidence in its ranks which would be it undoing these polls. “None of the old Congressmen are with Siddaramaiah and  there is a team of them conspiring against him. Neither Dr Parameshwar nor Mr Kharge is with him. He is left with only a few migrant Congress leaders," he  said. Asked if he was backing the conspiracy, he replied in the negative saying, “We won’t join hands with any of these leaders. We don’t need to.”

Calling the Congress government “corrupt” and lacking in vision, he claimed that although Mr Siddaramaiah described his government as scam -free and transparent,  you only had to ask a contractor and he would tell you about the commission he had to pay to be awarded a tender. “They call  it a nudidnanthe nadeda sada sidda sarkara, but I call it a nudithanthe nadeda sada “vodeda” (looting) sararkara,” he said. Rubbishing Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s statement that the S in JD (S) stood for  Sangh Parivar, he said it was the Congress which had fake secular principles. “Rahul’s political knowledge is weak. He just reads a script written for him,” he charged. Also, explaining his decision to contest from Channapatna, he claimed he was only doing so under pressure from the people of the constituency.