Let there be elections, we’re ready: BJP

“We don’t consider it as a mistake. We have made a wrong assessment. That can be the correct description,” Naidu told Karan Thapar’s Devil’s Advocate programme for CNN-IBN when asked whether he thought the alliance with the JD-S was a mistake.

He, however, asserted that the last word on the transfer of power has not been said yet and expressed confidence that the issue will be resolved amicably during talks between Deve Gowda and BJP chief Rajnath Singh.

“If they agree as per the agreement fine, otherwise let there be elections. I can tell you BJP will become victorious and Yediyurappa will become the next Chief Minister,” he said claiming that the mood among the people in Karnataka was in favour of the BJP.

He said the BJP had decided to join hands with the JD-S despite suggestions from media and its well-wishers that the party cannot be relied upon as it felt that the Congress-JD(S) coalition will ‘further ruin the state’.

“Subsequently JD-S realised that Congress has betrayed them. They fell apart and came to us and said we will have a long-term relationship, we believed them,” he said.