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Letter to BS: Congress-JD(S) alliance is questionable on many grounds

Pre-poll coalitions should get the chance if they can stitch together a majority

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With reference to “After the circus” (May 21), I think not only the Bharatiya Janata Party but the Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) should also be severely criticised for their approach to form the government in Karnataka by taking advantage of poll results which threw up a hung Assembly.

The alliance between the two parties is questionable on many grounds. One, now the state will be ruled by two parties which fought against each other fiercely. Two, since the single largest party isn’t one of them, the state will be run by those who the voters least liked. Three, the coalition