Bengaluru: “I have been denied the ticket by BJP only because of party’s state president BS Yeddyurappa. I did not join the KJP when Yeddyurappa had founded it, that’s the reason he has denied me the ticket. All surveys conducted in the Sagar constituency are in my favor. For five years I have developed the party in this constituency. But now, the ticket has been issued to a corrupt candidate,” claimed the former Sagar MLA Belur Gopalakrishna.

He said, “BJP will not make Yeddyurappa Chief Minister because the party has not fielded more number of Lingayats for the May 12 Assembly polls.”

“JD (s) has contacted and invited me to join the party. But I will not join any party. Rather I will fight against Hartala Halappa as a revolt candidate in the Sagar Constituency. My only aim is to defeat Halappa,” he added.

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New York/Washington, May 7 (PTI): US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said India has “agreed” to drop its high tariffs “to nothing”.

“I mean, India as an example, has one of the highest tariffs in the world. We’re not going to put up with that, and they’ve agreed already to drop it. They’ll drop it to nothing. They’ve already agreed. They would have never done that for anybody else but me,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

Trump and visiting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke to reporters as they met in the Oval Office to discuss the US-Canada trade.

“So we’re going to put down some numbers and we’re going to say our country is open for business and they’re going to come in and they’re going to pay for the privilege of being able to shop in the United States of America. It’s very simple. It’s very simple,” he added.

In the past, Trump has called India “tariff king” and a “big abuser”.

Last month, Trump had said that negotiations with India over a bilateral trade deal are “coming along great” and he thinks “we’ll have a deal with India”.