Gowda continues to attack Cong on collapse of coalition govt

Continuing his attack against the Congress, JD(S) patriarch H D Deve Gowda on Friday said his son H D Kumaraswamy had shed tears wanting to resign as Chief Minister of the coalition government, citing "trouble" from the alliance partner in running the administration.

Stating that he was "swallowing pain" all these days, the former Prime Minister said he had advised Kumaraswamy against resignation in the larger interest of the unity of secular parties.

"..I was swallowing pain of what all they (Congress) were doing, if I had come out in the open about it, it would have come across that Deve Gowda was responsible for the collapse of the government.

Kumaraswamy had cried and said he would resign," Gowda said.

Speaking to reporters here, he said, "because of trouble from you (media) and they (Congress) gave, one day he came home and said, he will resign.

I told him, in the country the situation is Modi (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) versus other secular parties, if we resign now, at the top level there (in Delhi) there may be danger, so withstand."
Siddaramaiah earlier hit back at Gowda for accusing him of being responsible for the collapse of the coalition government, terming the allegation "baseless", "unscrupulous" and "politically motivated."