JD(S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy on Friday met Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, setting tongues wagging in political circles. Quoting sources, PTI reported that the two leaders met for about 15 minutes at the CM's home office 'Krishna'.
JD(S) Melkote MLA C.S. Puttaraju was also present at the meeting. Reports said the two leaders discussed certain issues pertaining to the Melkote constituency.
However, the meeting has sparked speculations as it comes amid allegations from a section of Congress leaders that Kumaraswamy was going soft on the BJP government.
Both Kumaraswami and Yediyurappa had earlier met on September 11. It was their first meeting after the fall of the Congress-JD(S) coalition that Kumaraswamy headed last year.
They had then said that the meeting, which lasted about an hour, was to discuss the rain situation in Bengaluru.
Last month, in an interview to the Deccan Herald, Kumaraswamy had claimed that he was not going soft on the ruling party, but on the government. He had also targeted the Congress, saying that all the goodwill that he gained over more than a decade had suffered a blow because of the coalition with Congress in 2018.
“The (previous) government began crumbling because of differences between (KPCC chief) D.K. Shivakumar and Ramesh Jarkiholi, which they never tried to resolve,” he had said. Jarkiholi, who was a minister in the Kumaraswamy government, was disqualified from the assembly as per the anti-defection law in 2019, but was re-elected to the assembly on a BJP ticket in 2019.
