JDS to have alliance with like-minded party: HDK
Bengaluru, May 7: If there is a hung assembly after the election, the JDS would support those which respond positively to the party, said JDS state president and former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy.
Releasing the party manifesto at a programme at JP Bhavan in Bengaluru on Monday, Kumaraswamy said that the JDS is in favour of total six crore people of the state. He would not knock the door of any national party for chief minister post. The party is ready to sit in the opposition place. If any political party accepted the JDS manifesto, then he would think of extending his support to that party, he said.
Some activists and writers have been putting pressure on supporting the Congress instead of BJP. But both Congress and BJP are opportunists. In order to shield the corrupt, they have weakened the Lokayukta. For power, he would not knock the door of any national political party, he clarified.
Media surveys on election outcome were just assumptions. They have given the statistics as per their interest. But the people of the state have interest towards JDS. As the party would get majority on its own, there would be no question of depending upon anybody. If the voters decided for hung assembly as per the surveys, he would not demand support from any party. But the party would extend its support to those who accept stand of the JDS, he said.
It was BJP government which fixed percentage for bill clearance, and awarding contracts and Congress has continued that practice. When the BJP has got the kick-backs through cheques, the Congress has got in cash. It would have been better if Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke after knowing all these, he ridiculed.
The Yeddyurappa government had made burden of Rs 83 lakh crore loan, while Siddaramaiah government has made Rs 1.50 lakh crore burden on people of the state. Both the governments have looted the tax money, he blasted.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
