Bengaluru: Over a week after his coalition government collapsed, former Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Saturday said he wants to “step back” from politics and termed his entry into the field accidental.
Expressing unhappiness over the current state of politics, the JDS leader said it was not good for people as it was dominated by hatred and caste. “Todays politics is not for good people. Todays politics is filled with infatuation towards caste, hate politics… The way certain feelings are instigated in people by a section, the way youth today are deflecting from their path…can I correct all these things? God will see,” Kumaraswamy said.
Speaking to reporters, he said, “Dont bring my family into this repeatedly. Im not here to stick on in politics…looking at todays politics, I myself want to step back from politics. I have come into politics accidentally, I became chief minister accidentally….”
Kumaraswamy also rejected reports that his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy was likely to be the JD(S) candidate from K R Pet, where by-election is necessitated following the disqualification of rebel party MLA Narayanagowda.
Nikhil had tasted defeat during the Lok Sabha polls in the party bastion of Mandya against independent candidate and actress Sumalatha Ambareesh, who was supported by the BJP.
Kumaraswamy resigned as chief minister on July 23 with the 14-month-old Congress-JD(S) coalition government being defeated in the floor test, after a spate of resignations by alliance MLAs, who also abstained during the confidence vote. Following this 17 legislators, 14 from the Congress and three from JD(S) were disqualified by the then Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar. (PTI)
