Corruption, inflation focus of JD(S) plenary

JD(S) will seek to evolve a common strategy among non-NDA, non-UPA secular parties ahead of the budget session of Parliament on issues of corruption and price rise and chalk out its strategy for upcoming Assembly polls in some states.

At its plenary session in Bangalore later this week, the party headed by former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda will announce a countrywide campaign to expose and root out the “most corrupt” BJP government in Karnataka, JD(S) Secretary General Kunwar Danish Ali said.

The party will also elect its National President at its two-day plenary starting January 19 and discuss ways and means to expand and strengthen the party’s base, he said.

A political resolution expressing serious concern over corruption in the country including the “double standards” of the Opposition BJP on the issue and an economic resolution highlighting agrarian crisis and the plight of the common man due to sky rocketing prices would be adopted, Ali said. A separate resolution on the situation in Karnataka highlighting the “misdeeds of the worst and most corrupt” BJP Government in the state’s history would also be adopted, he said.

The plenary, to be addressed among others by the party top brass including Deve Gowda and JD(S) Karnataka unit president and former CM H D Kumaraswamy, will highlight the role and importance of regional parties both in state and national politics, he added.