Karnataka JD(S) president A H Vishwanath Tuesday resigned from his post owning “moral responsibility” for the party’s rout in Lok Sabha polls and flaying the ruling coalition’s functioning. He said neither he nor the Congress state president Dinesh Gundu Rao were part of the coordination committee. The JD(S) leader alleged that a conspiracy was hatched to make JDS supremo and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda contest from Tumkur and he was then defeated. “I have mentioned in my letter (to JDS chief) how a conspiracy was hatched and Deve Gowda was defeated in Tumkur. In his resignation letter to Gowda, Vishwanath said: “There aren’t major achievements barring a few in one or two departments.

Source: Hindustan Times June 04, 2019 13:52 UTC