Bengaluru, Sep 30: JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy on Saturday slammed Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for questioning the secular credentials of his party after its alliance with the BJP.
The JD(S) second-in-command also took a swipe at Siddaramaiah and sought to know how his party Congress had formed an alliance with Shiv Sena in Maharashtra who had at one point of time been allies of the BJP.
In a message on ‘X’, Kumaraswamy said: “How secular it is to hold meetings of caste and distribute cookers and iron boxes with the tag line ‘secular? Is it secular to hold a conference of religions and a meeting for a caste claiming to be the leader of minorities and backward communities? Tell me Mr Siddaramaiah?”
“Your adjustment politics is world famous. Is the @INCIndia party secular which has formed alliance with BJP B team members in INDIA block?
“Stalin, Mamata Banerjee, Farooq Abdullah, Nitish Kumar, Hemant Soren, Vaiko, Mehbooba Mufti, Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray. Aren’t you ashamed to sit next to them?” Kumaraswamy wondered while referring to the INDIA alliance.
“You branded @JanataDal S as BJP B team for the sole reason that it formed government with @BJP4Karnataka in 2006 but the Congress was the one, which had come to former prime minister HD Deve Gowda’s house to form the government with the same B team in 2018!” JD(S) leader and former Karnataka chief minister added.
The former chief minister also sought to remind Congress that secularism is not a word, but a loyalty deep in the heart. (PTI)
