Deve Gowda to bare it all in biography

The Janata Dal (Secular) supremo said he wants to record his life's bitter experiences for the next generation to read.

At present, the 79-year-old is spending an hour each day, dictating a draft of his experiences since childhood. State party spokesman Y S V Datta and two others are writing the biography, he told reporters here.

He regretted that a section of the political class had questioned his secular credentials after his son H D Kumaraswamy joined hands with the BJP to form a coalition government in Karnataka in 2006. It was projected as if Deve Gowda hatched a conspiracy to install his son as Chief Minister, he said.

Deve Gowda said he would throw light on the circumstances surrounding Kumaraswamy