Bengaluru: The battle of Congress-JDS alliance, which lost out on the power of Karnataka due to internal confrontation a few months ago, has now come to the fore. In view of the byelections in the state, the political atmosphere is reverberating. The two former chief ministers of the state, Siddaramaiah and HD Kumaraswamy, are in a word war. In a tweet, senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah targeted Kumaraswamy, saying that "despite four decades of political experience, I made the mistake of considering the vulture as a parrot and aligned with him".

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On this, Kumaraswamy said that "I had become the Chief Minister on the will of the Congress high command and Siddaramaiah could not tolerate the same thing, due to which the government could not run long". Speaking to reporters in Hubli, Siddaramaiah said that Kumaraswamy does not speak intelligently. Quoting GT Deve Gowda, a JDS legislator and a minister in Kumaraswamy's cabinet, said that Kumaraswamy had asked BJP candidates in Mysore and Chamarajanagar to vote during the Lok Sabha elections. He said that now that the by-elections have come, He is doing a drama.

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Congress leaders were reacting to Kumaraswamy's statement in which he blamed his father HD Deve Gowda in Tumkuru, his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy in Mandya and Siddaramaiah for the defeat of Congress candidate KH Muniyappa in Kolar. Reversing Siddaramaiah's statement, Kumaraswamy said that "the Congress leader who accused me of betrayal has betrayed Deve Gowda, who had learned politics under his shadow." Let us tell you that there is an old feud between the Siddaramaiah and Deve Gowda family in the state.

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