1 of 2 Kumaraswamy,Kumaraswamy meets Mayawati,Kumaraswamy with Mayawati,HD Kumaraswamy,hd kumaraswamy swearing-in ceremony,CM Kumaraswamy
Karnataka CM designate HD Kumaraswamy met Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati here and discussed plans of putting in place a Congress and JD-S coalition government. The JD-S contested the Karnataka election in a pre-poll alliance with the BSP and later had a post-poll tie-up with the Congress. JD-S General Secretary and Spokesperson Danish Ali said Kumaraswamy and Congress leaders discussed "long term relationship on mutual trust" of the newly-formed coalition and vowed to give a joint contest to the BJP in Karnataka in 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Besides Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, Mayawati and Chief Ministers Arvind Kejriwal (Delhi), Pinarayi Vijayan (Kerala), Mamata Banerjee (West Bengal), Chandrababu Naidu (Andhra Pradesh) and K. Chandrashekar Rao (Telangana) are expected to attend the oath-taking ceremony. Credit: ANI
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2 of 2 Kumaraswamy,Kumaraswamy meets Mayawati,Kumaraswamy with Mayawati,HD Kumaraswamy,hd kumaraswamy swearing-in ceremony,CM Kumaraswamy
This is the second time Kumaraswamy, the son of JD-S supremo and former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, will be the Chief Minister of the southern state, 12 years after the JD-S formed a coalition government with the BJP on February 4, 2006 and remained in office for 20 months till October 9, 2007. Credit: ANI