BJP's assessment of JD(S) was wrong: Venkaiah Naidu

POWERLESS IN KARNATAKA: BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu says JD(S) would pay for breaking trust.

        

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Venkaiah Naidu: Not at all, all the newspapers, including the BJP critics, are of the view that the BJP is behaving with decency and decorum with dignity and patience, nothing is going to end in two days.

Karan Thapar: Let me put it like this. There is no doubt that the chief ministership of Karnataka was an important goal for the BJP to achieve. But should you not gone above differently rather than ally with the unreliable and tricky JD(S) you should have awaited for the next election, you could have got a majority on your own.

Venkaiah Naidu: You are right. At that time this was the issue that was in our mind but when we discussed with our legislators they said immediately after the Assembly elections people do not like one more election and people want development to go on. So we joined together.

Karan Thapar: Now, with hindsight, can you accept you made a mistake.

Venkaiah Naidu: No, not at all—it is our experiment. Today BJP has become more popular also.

Karan Thapar: Experiment that gone against you.

Venkaiah Naidu: See the experiment that has gone against the people there, not against me. I have 80 MLAs.

Karan Thapar: Let me put it like this, when Kumaraswamy came knocking on your doors in January 2006 everyone knew he was an opportunist, everyone knew that he was desperate to come to power anyway he could. Why did a party that is so proud of its moral content allow itself to become the handmaiden of Kumaraswamy’s naked ambition?

Venkaiah Naidu: Many people like you, many well-wishers even the media, at that time cautioned us that you cannot ray upon this party.

Karan Thapar: Shouldn’t you have listened to them?

Venkaiah Naidu: No, we thought he is an youngster and he spoke that he has got the non-Congress blood in him and he want to work together, we thought we must give a try to this.

Karan Thapar: So now accept that you made a mistake.

Venkaiah Naidu: No, let us see what he is going to do. Why you forecast things and make a statement.

Karan Thapar: Not only are you going to fail to get the chief ministership, but look at facts. What happened to your electoral prospects in Karnataka? You came third in the urban local body elections, where you should have been first.