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With the Congress not inclined to an official pre-poll alliance with the Janata Dal Secular (JDS) in Karnataka,former Prime Minister and JDS national president H D Deve Gowda has fired his first salvo by seeking to club the Congress and BJP together over a business arrangement between Andhra Pradesh Congress Chief Minister Y S Rajashekhar Reddy’s kin and a BJP iron ore mining lobby in the Karnataka border district of Bellary.
The former Prime Minister has accused the BJP Government in Karnataka of compromising the state’s borders to facilitate Congress mining interests from Andhra Pradesh.
The BJP’s Bellary triumvirate of ministers — G Janardhan Reddy,G Karunakar Reddy and B Sreeramulu — all of whom have mining interests and a major say in the BJP,have been accused by Gowda of allowing encroachment of Karnataka land for mining on account of their business agreements with Rajashekhar Reddy’s son Jagan Mohan Reddy.
“The trimurtis of the BJP Government from Bellary are in league with the son of the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh in order to loot the iron ore in the mines bordering the two states. A 36-km strip of land has been surrendered to AP,” the former Prime Minister said without naming any of the BJP or Congress leaders.
While the political parties in Karnataka had a history of fighting for the state’s rights,the BJP Government had chosen to surrender,he said. Gowda said he would write to the President,the Prime Minister and the Election Commission on the issue.
Among key battles within battles in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls is expected to be the fight between Gowda,his sons on one side and the BJP’s financially strong Bellary leaders on the other. The two sides have been engaged in a running feud over the last three years to gain control over Bellary.
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