<p>JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda on Monday said he will disown his son H D Kumaraswamy if he allies with the BJP post the May 12 Assembly elections.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gowda told reporters in Bengaluru that he would not approve of a post-poll alliance between the two parties at any cost.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gowda had on Sunday told a national channel that such a situation would not arise. Stating that Kumaraswamy was resentful of his decision to align with the BJP in 2006, Gowda had said, “If such a thing happens, then my entire family will boycott him — I will disown him (Kumaraswamy).”</p>.<p class="bodytext">Further, Gowda had said that he would not allow Kumaraswamy to form a government with the Congress also.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Reiterating the same on Monday, he said, “I had told reporters of the channel that I will disown my son if he goes with the BJP. What’s there in it?”</p>.<p>“If he forms a government (with the BJP), that is a different issue. I will take take my own decision — I will not go with the party. If there is a fractured mandate, we will sit in the opposition,” said Gowda.</p>.<p>Gowda also attacked Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for repeatedly charging that the JD(S) had tied up with the BJP. “Isn’t Siddaramaiah ashamed of reiterating that I have a tacit understanding with the BJP? He chants the same thing from morning to night. A senior leader like Mallikarjun Kharge has never levelled such charges — no senior Congress leader has. If a lie is repeated 100 times, then people will start believing it to be the truth. This is nothing but dirty politics,” he said.</p>.<p>Gowda said Siddaramaiah had been making these charges ever since Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s visited Hassan last month. Rahul had termed the JD(S) as BJP’s B team.</p>.<p>He also said that he regretted his decision to extend support to the Congress in the BBMP.</p>.<p>On Siddaramaiah’s charges that Kumaraswamy was seen hobnobbing with BJP chief Amit Shah, Gowda demanded that the chief minister release authentic evidence, as opposed to documents like a “fake” flight ticket.<br />“There are also media reports that Siddaramaiah and Zameer Ahmed Khan (former MLA) had flown to Karachi together. How much credence should be given to all these charges?” he said.</p>
<p>JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda on Monday said he will disown his son H D Kumaraswamy if he allies with the BJP post the May 12 Assembly elections.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gowda told reporters in Bengaluru that he would not approve of a post-poll alliance between the two parties at any cost.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gowda had on Sunday told a national channel that such a situation would not arise. Stating that Kumaraswamy was resentful of his decision to align with the BJP in 2006, Gowda had said, “If such a thing happens, then my entire family will boycott him — I will disown him (Kumaraswamy).”</p>.<p class="bodytext">Further, Gowda had said that he would not allow Kumaraswamy to form a government with the Congress also.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Reiterating the same on Monday, he said, “I had told reporters of the channel that I will disown my son if he goes with the BJP. What’s there in it?”</p>.<p>“If he forms a government (with the BJP), that is a different issue. I will take take my own decision — I will not go with the party. If there is a fractured mandate, we will sit in the opposition,” said Gowda.</p>.<p>Gowda also attacked Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for repeatedly charging that the JD(S) had tied up with the BJP. “Isn’t Siddaramaiah ashamed of reiterating that I have a tacit understanding with the BJP? He chants the same thing from morning to night. A senior leader like Mallikarjun Kharge has never levelled such charges — no senior Congress leader has. If a lie is repeated 100 times, then people will start believing it to be the truth. This is nothing but dirty politics,” he said.</p>.<p>Gowda said Siddaramaiah had been making these charges ever since Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s visited Hassan last month. Rahul had termed the JD(S) as BJP’s B team.</p>.<p>He also said that he regretted his decision to extend support to the Congress in the BBMP.</p>.<p>On Siddaramaiah’s charges that Kumaraswamy was seen hobnobbing with BJP chief Amit Shah, Gowda demanded that the chief minister release authentic evidence, as opposed to documents like a “fake” flight ticket.<br />“There are also media reports that Siddaramaiah and Zameer Ahmed Khan (former MLA) had flown to Karachi together. How much credence should be given to all these charges?” he said.</p>
