Deve Gowda, son, grandson turn emotional, BJP dubs it 'drama'

JD(S) patriarch H D DeveGowda Wednesday turned emotional and said he was pained by allegations of dynasty politics against him.

The former prime minister's emotional response was to growing criticism of his family's alleged dynastypolitics with JD(S) fielding both his grandsons NikilKumaraswamy and Prajwal Revanna from party bastions of Mandyaand Hassan respectively for the Lok Sabha polls.

"...so many allegations, from morning in the media (they talk about) Deve Gowda, Revanna, Kumaraswamy and their sons," Gowda said as he broke down at an event in Hassan to launch the poll campaign of PrajwalRevanna.

Prajwal, son of Gowda's elder son and PWD Minister H D Revanna, is Congress-JDS coalition's candidate from Hassan.

Seeing Gowda wiping tears and speaking in a heavy voice, JD(S) supporters gathered atthe event requested him to calm down.

BJP has hit out at Deve Gowda, by calling the emotional episode as "drama".

The event also witnessed both Prajwal and his father Revanna too getting emotional.

Prajwal broke down as Gowda declared him as the candidate and Revanna while MLA Balakrishna was speaking about Gowda not contesting from Hassan this time.

Later speaking to reporters, Gowda said, he was painedby controversy in Mandya against his other grandson andchief minister H D Kumaraswamy's son Nikhil's candidature.

He said, "It was the decision of JD(S) leaders to field Nikil from Mandya. I had not announced.I'm deeply pained, they are saying Nikhil Go Back..."