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Former prime minister HD Deve Gowda has said that he will sit by Rahul Gandhi’s side if he becomes Prime Minister of India.
“I will sit by Rahul Gandhi’s side if he becomes Prime Minister,” ANI quotes former PM as saying
Deve Gowda, 85, is contesting as the Janata Dal Secular candidate from Karnataka’s Tumkur parliamentary constituency, where his BJP rival is GS Basavaraj.
“I announced three years back that I will not contest elections. There are circumstances now in which I have been forced to contest. There is nothing to hide. I have no ambition of anything but what I always said is that I am not going to retire from active politics,” the JDS chief told news agency.
On his son and Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy saying he could be Prime Minister again as a consensus candidate, he said: “I am not bothered about this. My concern is (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi will come to Parliament. I have got the guts and conviction to tell it to the face of the PM. I have the courage. If Rahul Gandhi becomes the Prime Minister, I will sit by his side. It is not necessary to become the Prime Minister.”
The JDS teamed up with the Congress to form a government in Karnataka after a hung verdict in state polls last year.
“Madam Sonia Gandhi has taken the decision to support Deve Gowda even though we are a small party. Now it is my responsibility to move forward with Congress, though I do agree in some states there is no question of any coalition. But in Tamil Nadu, there is a coalition between Congress and DMK and with Sharad Pawar’s party in Maharashtra,” Deve Gowda said.