JD(S) to fight 'evil design' of Congress-BJP

Janata Dal (Secular) would fight what it called the 'evil design' of the Congress and BJP to create a bi-polar or two party system in the country, national president, HD Deve Gowda, today said and called for consolidation of left democratic forces.

'There is no hesitation on our part to say that we will fight against the Congress and BJP building a bi-polar ssytem in the country', former prime minister, Gowda, told reportes here.

Both the two national parties 'use' the regional parties and later 'discard' them, he said.

There is need for consolidation of left democratic forces, he said adding 'secular forces are certainly trying to consolidate and move forward'.

On the possibility of a third front, Gowda said he had discussed the issue with the left parties earlier and 'we had come to a conclusion that there was need to consolidate the secular forces in the country'.

'Since my days as prime minister in New Delhi, I have been seeing the evil design of both the congress and BJP to build bipolar or two party system in the country', he said. 

On the formation of the Socialist Janatha (Democratic) party by former party colleague, MP Veerendra Kumar, he said 'I do not want to comment on that. When he himself has taken the decision to go with the United Democratic Front (UDF)... He is one of the elderly leaders...', Gowda said. 'I wish him good wishes'.

He said he would not comment on the circumstances leading
to the parting of ways by Veerendra Kumar and what made him
take the take decision to go with congress led UDF.

On the mining scam in Karnataka, Gowda said ' Everybody knows what is happening in Karnataka. It is a routine normal day to day affair. On Aug 17, the scam will figure in Parliament, he said adding the Lok Ayukta's second report on the scam is expected shortly.

Huge quantity of mining materials like coal have been transported to various ports from Karnataka without proper permission, he said.

On whether BJP government was at fault on the issue, Gowda
said chief minister had himself admitted in the floor of the
legislative council that over one crore tonnes of mining materials had been transported to various countries in the last two years.

Asked about the case against PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani, an accused in the Bangalore blast case and the presence of Karnataka police in Kerala now to arrest him, Gowda said he did not want to come to any conclusion. 

However, the minorities have been victimised on several occasions in Karnataka which is under BJP rule, he said. This
is not specifically on the madani issue. Individually the government has fabricated cases against minorities, he alleged adding the minorities are under threat in Karnataka. 

National general secretary, Dansih Ali, said one advice from JD(S) workers was that either veerendra Kumar should move a resolution in the Congress Working Committee to accept that Jaiprakash Narain was right in launching an agitation or he should not use the photographs of JP, Ram Manohar Lohia or other socialist leaders.

'We have taken a view that 3 MLAs have joined the new party
of Veerendra Kumar and the party has asked its legislative
party secretary and minister, Jose Thettayil to petition the speaker for disqualification of the 3 MLAs, Ali said. 

Gowda, is in Kerala to attend a state convention of his party at Kottayam.