Kalaburgi: Former chief minister and CLP leader Siddaramaiah clarified here on Saturday, May 11, on how he exited the Janata Dal (S) party.
Addressing the media, he said that it was the former prime minister and Janata Dal (S) Supremo H D Deve Gowda who had expelled him from the party and that he did not walk out of it on his own.
Siddramaiah said, “Former deputy chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader R Ashok keeps taunting me that I had left the JDS, but he has his facts wrong. I had organised an Ahinda convention because of which HDD removed me from the party on charges of going against its principles.”
Slamming BJP State President B S Yeddyurappa on ‘Operation Lotus’, he said, “BSY has no other work to do than count the days for the Congress-JDS coalition government to collapse. He has been doing this from the past one year. From where has he got so much money to purchase the coalition MLAs? Is Prime Minister Narendra Modi or BJP Chief Amit Shah making some arrangements for this?”
Meanwhile, he opined that the All India Congress Committee (AICC) President Rahul Gandhi would definitely become the prime minister and not Narendra Modi.
