No threat to coalition govt.: HD Deve Gowda
Bengaluru, August 31: Former prime minister and JDS Supremo HD Deve Gowda said that the JDS-Congress coalition government led by HD Kumaraswamy has no threat.
After holding a meeting with British High Commissioner Donald Mike Alister at his house at Padmanabhanagar in the city on Friday, Gowda told reporters that both Congress and JDS were not ready to give up the power to BJP. So, there was no threat to the coalition government. All issues would be discussed in the Coordination Committee meeting to be chaired by Siddaramaiah today. All confusions in the Congress have cleared, he said.
The British High Commissioner has met him to know the political situation in different states. Noticing the news appeared in the media that there was confusion in Karnataka politics, he has met him and got all the information, he said.
The news that RV Deshpande was also the CM candidate was old issue. This issue has cropped up when Dharam Singh was the chief minister. There was nothing special in it. “Myself and Deshpande have worked together in the Ramakrishna Hegde government”, he recalled.
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US VP JD Vance says Lebanon not part of ceasefire, calls it ‘misunderstanding’
Budapest/Washington: US Vice President J D Vance has said that Lebanon was never included in the ceasefire understanding with Iran, describing the confusion as a “legitimate misunderstanding”.
Speaking to reporters before departing from Hungary, Vance said, “I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn’t. We never made that promise.”
He stressed that the United States had not included Lebanon in the scope of the ceasefire at any stage.
His remarks come amid continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon, where more than 200 people were reported killed, even as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US move forward.
Vance said Israel had “offered … to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful”.
He warned that if Iran allows the situation in Lebanon to affect the negotiations, it could derail the talks.
“If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that’s ultimately their choice,” he said.
