10/21/2018 ‘People should not get confused about Chandrasekhar Patil’s statement’ - The Hindu

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‘People should not get confused about Chandrasekhar

Patil’s statement’
STAFF REPORTER
LINGSUGUR (RAICHUR DISTRICT), NOVEMBER 27, 2017 00:40 IST
UPDATED: NOVEMBER 27, 2017 00:40 IST

Janata Dal (S) national president H.D. Deve Gowda has said that people should not be confused
about the statement by Chandrasekhar Patil, president of the 83rd Akhila Bharata Sahitya
Sammelana, on electing a secular national party in the Assembly elections.

He added that “he (Mr. Patil) might have appealed to voters to elect those who will protect the
interest of the State’s language, soil and border, and everyone has a right to make such an
appeal.”

Mr. Patil had appealed voters to elect a secular national party in the Assembly elections during
his presidential address on the inaugural day of the literary event.

Mr. Deve Gowda, who was here on Sunday to attend a mass marriage organised by local MLA
Manappa Vajjal, said that preference will be given to prominent MLAs and leaders of the party
from any constituency and there will not be any problem as far as ticket distribution for the
next Assembly election is concerned. “An opportunity will be given to those who want to
dislodge the party’s sitting MLAs to contest in other places,” he added. When asked about
Rahul Gandhi’s leadership in the Congress, Mr. Deve Gowda said that he does not want to
speak on the political decisions of other parties, as everyone has the right to contest in
elections. However, the Janata Dal(S), which opposed the Congress in the political arena,
would continue to hold that stand even in the future, he said.

The party’s leaders will decide about Prajwal Revanna contesting elections, he said. Mr. Deve
Gowda said that he was not aware about a move to induct M.P. Ravindra, son of late M.P.
Prakash, into the party.
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