JD(S) to go it alone in next assembly elections

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The party which won 19 percent vote share in 2008 Karnataka polls decided to field candidates in all 224 assembly seats...

BANGALORE: Winning a 19 per cent vote share in the 2008 May assembly elections seems to have emboldened the JD(S), which has decided to go alone by fielding candidates in all the 224 assembly seats in the state in the upcoming polls.
Ruling out the possibility of a electoral alliances, JD(S) state secretary Basavaraj Patil Yatnal said that as many as 110 candidates will be shortlisted by Vijayadashami.Yatnal informed the press here on Sunday after attending a meeting of JD(S) functionaries and legislators, which was also attended by party leaders H D Deve Gowda and H D Kumaraswamy, that the process of forming booth and block level committees will be kickstarted on August 31.

A former BJP leader who had served as minister of state for Railways in the NDA government, Yatnal castigated the state government for being neckdeep in corruption.

Demanding the resignation of a state minister, who was among the three persons who met the Lokayukta on behalf of the CM, Yatnal declared the JD(S) would stage a protest march to the Raj Bhavan on July 22, demanding the Governor's intervention.

He said that it would have stemmed from Hegde's relationship with senior BJP leader L K Advani, whom Hegde had considered equal to his father.