From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network
Bengaluru, Nov 2: With a string of defeats in the Assembly and Lok Sabha bypolls and growing internal rifts within the JD(S), former party MLC Abdul Azeem has quit the Vokkaliga-dominated party.
The ex-IPS officer turned politician, who had been very critical of the BJP and Sangh Parivar outfits in the past, is likely to join BJP.
The former police officer Abdul Azeem resigned from the primary membership of the JD(S) and has directly submitted his resignation to party’s national president H.D. Deve Gowda.
Abdul Azeem was critical of the JD(S) leaders, especially former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy when an the latter had allegedly sought money from an MLC aspirant in exchange for JD(S) support to contest in the last State Legislative Council elections.
"All of us in the party from top to bottom have become suspects in the eyes of the people and the very existence of the party is in danger,” he had recently remarked on the issue of alleged corruption in the JD (S).
Abdul Azeem has expressed his displeasure at the recent tour of JD(S) legislators to Sri Lanka.
Another Muslim leader in the JD(S) and former minister Z A Zameer Ahmed Khan, who was once a confidante of Kumaraswamy, is also discontented with the Deve Gowda family’s style of functioning.
It may be recalled that many of the JD(S) leaders were critical of the party’s decision to keep off the recent byelections to the State Assembly.