This is K’taka, your politics will not work here: HDK to Shah

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy on Monday hit back at Union Home Minister Amit Shah by stating that his style of politics will not work in Karnataka.

The former chief minister’s retort comes after Shah’s comments against the regional party calling it an ‘ATM of a family’ and claiming that voting for it will be like casting the ballot for the Congress.  

Regarding the upcoming assembly polls, he said the second list of the party candidates for the election is expected after Sankranti, which falls on January 15. The party has already announced a first list of 93 candidates.

“He (Shah) has said (BJP will have) no alliance with anyone. Who had gone to their doorstep? Did we go seeking an understanding? I’m building my party with an aim to cross 120 seats (in 224 member assembly). I’m working 20 hours a day. I have not gone to the doorstep of Congress or BJP with an application,” Kumaraswamy said.

“This is Karnataka, your politics will not work here... I had not gone to anyone’s door, both Congress and BJP had come to my door seeking for alliance... your party (BJP) people are talking that they may have to join hands with JD(S), not me,” he said.

The former chief minister asked “what morality the BJP has which is looting the state with corruption to accuse JD(S).”