Rons Bantwal
Daijiworld Media Network – Mumbai (EP)

Mumbai, Feb 5: “Language academy, minority academy and special corporations have stopped functioning.  A year has passed without municipal council elections. The local administration and local representatives are being taken for a ride," said Kumaraswamy.

"The chief minister Siddaramaiah has become a gas bag passing the time promising to drive away poverty," said H D Kumaraswamy, former chief minister of Karnataka and president of JDS party.

Kumaraswamy had arrived in Mumbai to participate in a private programme. He addressed a press conference held at the Hotel Solitaire at Andheri east on Monday afternoon January 3.

"Siddaramaiah boasts that he will be the chief minister for next four and half years but H M Revanna, of his own party speaks something else. The rebellion and insecurity can be made out by it," he said.

To a question whether the JDS intends to topple the government making use of the dispute in the party, he said that they do not have such motive.  It is not important who runs the government provided there is development.  They will not remain quiet in that direction, he said.

Adding that the coalition government that they had with the BJP is going to be their last coalition with them, he said that the mistake will not be repeated.  Why have the BJP taken Yeddyurappa who is notorious for corruption, into their party when the party has corruption as the main subject in the national level, he asked.

Asked about what are his calculations for the JDS in the forthcoming elections, he said that he is studying the mind of party activists and hopes to get ten to twelve positions.  Devegowda being a person with predominance on a national level, has intended to have a federal front, free from

Congress and BJP after discussing with party leaders, he said.

He did not object to Tamilnadu chief minister Jayalalitha projecting her as a leader at national level and said that that will facilitate in her understanding our stand and arguments regarding Kaveri water distribution.

Adding that Aam Admi Party is just a show, he said that the party should first clean Bangalore with their broom and they should understand the people and the format of governance before coming into politics.

“There will be no influence of Modi in Karnataka. Countering the statements of Sonia Gandhi family and joking about corruption are not the requisites of a good administrator. It only gives entertainment to the people”, he said.

Narayana R Gowda, K R Pete MLA and former Okkaliga Sangha Maharastra president, present President Rangappa C Gowda, Kannadiga journalist’s association Maharastra vice president Dayasagar Chowta presented Kannadiga Journalists association Maharastra ‘Directory 2014’ to HDK and felicitated him.

Honorary chief secretary Rons Bantwal submitted an appeal for funds from the Karnataka government for an association building and health fund.