Karnataka Chief Minister H DKumaraswamy today said whether JD(S) and Congress would contest the Lok Sabha polls together would depend on how they were treated by the ally.
Kumaraswamy, also the JD(S) state unit chief, however, said the pre-poll alliance with congress was still on the agenda.
"That is our agenda, it is there. Let us see..Congress, how they are going to treat JD(S)," Kumaraswamy told reporters in response to a question about pre-poll alliancewith the Congress with which it is running a coalition government in the state.
Asked about the "mahagathbandhan (grand alliance)," hesaid "it will continue."
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