Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister and JDS National President HD Deve Gowda has ordered the disbandment of JDS's Karnataka unit sacking state President CM Ibrahim. HD Deve Gowda while addressing a presser held in the JDS office at Bengaluru, appointed his son and former Chief Minister Kumaraswamy as the ad hoc President for the Karnataka unit of JDS.
“We have all come together and unanimously decided to make HD Kumaraswamy, who is the leader of the legislative party, as the state president of the party,” Gowda said. Deve Gowda said that the JDS state working committee including JDS state president CM Ibrahim stands dissolved. He said that as per Article (10) of the Constitution and Rules of the JDS Party, the State President of the Karnataka Pradesh Janata Dal Party and the office bearers of the State Working Committee have been dissolved with immediate effect.
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JDS Karnataka President had recently revolted against the JDS top brass for the tie-up with BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024. Significantly, JDS Karnataka President Ibrahim had on Oct 16 held a meeting with 'like-minded' people in JD(S). After the meeting with fellow JDS leaders, Ibrahim had announced that the party led by him was the original one.
The rebel JDS leader had also announced the formation of a core committee he said would submit a memorandum to the party supremo HD Deve Gowda that the JD(S) should not have a tie-up with the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections next year. Ibrahim's revolt against Gowda has revived the memories of the revolt by NCP rebel leader who rebelled against party supremo and uncle Sharad Pawar along with fellow MLAs to be part of the BJP and the Eknath Shinde led Shiv Sena government.
