BENGALURU/TIRUPATI: Dismissing BJP’s assertion it will get more than 300 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, JDS supremo H D Deve Gowda Saturday said no national party can form the Government without the support of regional parties.
Gowda, a former prime minister, also expressed confidence that his son and Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy would complete his five-year term.
Yesterday also he (BJP president Amit Shah) said they may get more than 300 seats; so will Congress come to power? both are national parties they (Congress) too have difficulty. Without the cooperation of regional parties, no national party can administer, he said.
Speaking to reporters here, he said, in the same way without (the support of) national parties no regional party can govern.”
JDS, an ally of Congress in Karnataka, has already pledged its support to Congress President Rahul Gandhi in forming a Government at the Centre. (AGENCIES)
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