On Sunday, April 07, 2019, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy said a section of people wanted to "finish him off politically" by defeating his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy in the Mandya Lok Sabha constituency. Kumaraswamy said he was relying "only on the JD(S) MLAs, MLCs and the sitting member of parliament L R Shivarame Gowda (in Mandya)."

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Addressing to reporters in Udupi, the Chief Minister said he did not depend on the alliance partner, Congress in Mandya. "Some Congress leaders are working and some are not working (in Mandya), but I am not upset with that. But there is a section out to finish me off by defeating Nikhil Kumaraswamy in the Mandya Lok Sabha constituency. However, they don't have the support of the local people there," Kumaraswamy alleged. "I have eight MLAs, three MLCs and the sitting Lok Sabha member are there.. They will work.. I won't blame anybody," he added.

Three days ago in Mysore constituency, the JD(S) workers had openly rebelled against the Congress candidate. C H Vijayashankar and shouted pro-BJP slogans in the presence of Higher Education Minister and JD(S) MLA G T Deve Gowda. The outburst was against the 'hostility' of Congress in Mandya and Hassan. These are the two constituencies from where former prime minister H D Deve Gowda's grandsons Nikhil Kumaraswamy and Prajwal Revanna are contesting the Lok Sabha election.

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