<p>Bengaluru, DHNS: Is the JD(S) getting cosy with the BJP? At least, this is what the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) believes. As a result, the NCP has decided not to go ahead with a pre-poll alliance plan with the regional party.</p>.<p>"Our only condition for the pre-poll alliance was that the JD(S) should not have a truck with the BJP in the event of a hung Assembly. But it looks like this condition will not be met. So, the deal is more or less over," NCP Karnataka general secretary Tilak S Nambiar said.</p>.<p>The NCP's decision to pull out of the alliance talks with the JD(S) gives credence to speculation in political circles that there could be a throwback to 2006 situation<br />when the JD(S) and the BJP joined hands to form a government.</p>.<p>It was in February that Pawar met JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy. As part of the pre-poll alliance, the NCP was to contest 5-7 seats. The party will now fight the polls on its own.</p>.<p>"We will contest mostly in North Karnataka, which we feel is our stronghold. The number of seats and candidates will be finalised this week," Nambiar said.</p>.<p>The Congress has angered the JD(S) camp with party president Rahul Gandhi himself launching repeated attacks on the regional party. The BJP, however, has refrained from criticising the JD(S).</p>.<p>Not only did the Congress cold-shoulder the regional party's call to help its Rajya Sabha nominee B M Farook get elected in the recent polls, but Rahul also dubbed the JD(S) as the BJP's 'B' team.</p>.<p>Recently in Mysuru, BJP president Amit Shah seemed guarded while responding to a question on the JD(S).</p>.<p>"There's no question of any alliance. We will fight the election in all 224 seats on our own," he said.</p>.<p>It is also learnt that the BJP could tacitly support the JD(S) by not fielding a strong candidate in the Chamundeshwari constituency, where Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will contest from.</p>.<p>The JD(S) candidate here is incumbent legislator G T Deve Gowda.</p>
<p>Bengaluru, DHNS: Is the JD(S) getting cosy with the BJP? At least, this is what the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) believes. As a result, the NCP has decided not to go ahead with a pre-poll alliance plan with the regional party.</p>.<p>"Our only condition for the pre-poll alliance was that the JD(S) should not have a truck with the BJP in the event of a hung Assembly. But it looks like this condition will not be met. So, the deal is more or less over," NCP Karnataka general secretary Tilak S Nambiar said.</p>.<p>The NCP's decision to pull out of the alliance talks with the JD(S) gives credence to speculation in political circles that there could be a throwback to 2006 situation<br />when the JD(S) and the BJP joined hands to form a government.</p>.<p>It was in February that Pawar met JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy. As part of the pre-poll alliance, the NCP was to contest 5-7 seats. The party will now fight the polls on its own.</p>.<p>"We will contest mostly in North Karnataka, which we feel is our stronghold. The number of seats and candidates will be finalised this week," Nambiar said.</p>.<p>The Congress has angered the JD(S) camp with party president Rahul Gandhi himself launching repeated attacks on the regional party. The BJP, however, has refrained from criticising the JD(S).</p>.<p>Not only did the Congress cold-shoulder the regional party's call to help its Rajya Sabha nominee B M Farook get elected in the recent polls, but Rahul also dubbed the JD(S) as the BJP's 'B' team.</p>.<p>Recently in Mysuru, BJP president Amit Shah seemed guarded while responding to a question on the JD(S).</p>.<p>"There's no question of any alliance. We will fight the election in all 224 seats on our own," he said.</p>.<p>It is also learnt that the BJP could tacitly support the JD(S) by not fielding a strong candidate in the Chamundeshwari constituency, where Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will contest from.</p>.<p>The JD(S) candidate here is incumbent legislator G T Deve Gowda.</p>
