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: This is another wrong notion. Last time BJP had 482 local wards and in this election I get 1,180. Out of seven municipal corporations, four are now controlled by the BJP, Elections in Bangalore are yet to be held and in Mysore and Gulbarga no corporation can be formed without me.

Karan Thapar: You would have come first if you had not made this wretched alliance with JD(S). You would have come first if you had secured your interest as a party before the desire to grab the chief ministership.

Venkaiah Naidu: Try to understand, the Congress and the JD(S) alliance at that time would have further ruined the state. That was on our mind. And tomorrow when I am saying Yediyurappa will be chief minister not by machination, if they agree as per the agreement fine, otherwise let there be election I can tell you the BJP will become victorious and Yediyurappa will become chief minister.

Karan Thapar: That’s the second danger. Whenever national elections are held—and they expected to be in first half of 2008—you are in serious danger now, as a result of your alliance Kumaraswamy, of losing many of the 18 Lok Sabha seats you have. Instead of clinching to power and growing stronger in Karnataka you have weakened yourself because of greed and desperation.

Venkaiah Naidu: Not at all. It’s a wrong notion. The BJP will sweep the polls both for Lok Sabha and for Karnataka Assembly. The mood is upbeat; the morale of my MLAs and my cadre is also upbeat. We went to Bangalore—me and Yashwant Sinha. We had a detail discussion. We have also understood the mood of people also. It is the BJP, which is the choice of the people of Karnataka.

Karan Thapar: Let me end this part with one simple question. You keep saying 24 hours, may be in a week, may be little longer Yediyurappa will be Chief Minister. I put it to you if the JD(S) does not support Yediyurappa and he does not become chief minister at that point will you accept that the alliance was a mistake.

Venkaiah Naidu: There is no question of mistake. We don’t consider it as a mistake.

Karan Thapar: You will never accept you made a mistake.

Venkaiah Naidu: Try to understand we have made a wrong assessment. That can be a correct description. If somebody betrays you, gives an assurance…