Control your party men, HDD to Venugopal

Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda on Tuesday spoke to Congress general secretary in-charge of Karnataka K C Venugopal over the phone and requested him to control the Congress leaders from talking against his son, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy.

It is gathered that Deve Gowda informed Venugopal that if the Congress leaders keep talking against the chief minister, it would be difficult for the smooth functioning of the coalition government.

If certain sources are to be believed Gowda also said “When the coalition government was formed, the Congress promised to back Kumaraswamy as chief minister for the full five-year term. But now its party leaders trying to make Siddaramaiah as the chief minister. This is nothing but an insult to the incumbent CM.”