Congress on Sunday hinted at being open to doing business with the JD-S again in Karnataka if there was a hung verdict in the Assembly elections."The JD-S had a nightmarish experience working with the BJP, but not with the Congress. We also worked with them for 20 months happily," AICC media department chairman M Veerappa Moily said.He was asked whether the Congress would join hands with Deve Gowda's JD-S in Karnataka in the event of the party not managing to get majority in the 224-member Assembly."Congress has a culture of coalition. The party has always stood for stability. You know that the party has made sacrifices in the past for the sake of stability. The BJP has a sense of insecurity which we don't have," Moily, also a former Karnataka Chief Minister, said.The Congress was part of a coalition government in Karnataka along with the JD-S for 20 months following the 2004 elections which threw up a hung Assembly.The Dharam Singh Government had collapsed, with the JD-S parting ways and aligning with the BJP.AICC spokesperson Jayanthi Natarajan said secularism is a common factor between the Congress and the JD-S, but added that the Congress high command would take a decision on the party entering into any alliance in the state."Why not?," was her reply when asked if the Congress was willing to form an alliance with the JD-S, adding this is something better than having no Government.Natarajan also said that in the event of a post-poll alliance with the JD-S, the Chief Minister's post should go to the Congress on account of having larger number of seats.
