Cong-JDS alliance in Lok Sabha poll, says Deve Gowda, Siddaramaiah
Bengaluru, October 20: Former prime minister and JDS supremo and Coordination Committee chairman and former chief minister Siddaramaiah jointly announced that the alliance of the Congress and JDS would continue even in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections in order to keep the communal BJP away from the power and bring together all secular parties together.
Speaking in a joint press conference at a private hotel here on Saturday, the leaders said that the alliance would start from the by-elections to the three Lok Sabha and two Assembly constituencies and it would pave way for the victory in the next elections and exuded confidence that the coalition candidates would win in the by-elections.
The coalition leaders would jointly campaign in favour of the candidates and they would appeal the people to forgive their earlier mistakes. In many occasions, both Congress and JDS leaders have made allegations against each other. But now, they have come together in the interest of the country, they announced.
Locally, JDS and Congress leaders have to go together inevitably. For the benefit of the country, they have to unit and work together to defeat the communal BJP. Secular votes should not be divided. For the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, Congress-JDS coalition was the foundation and the coalition would win all the 28 constituencies in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, they said.
After Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister, the economy of the country was at the low level. The BJP has completely failed to fulfill its promises made during the elections. Dalits, backward people, minorities and farmers were under distress. The Prime Minister has no time to listen to the problems of the farming community, they blasted.
BJP was equal enemy to both Congress and JDS. Workers of these two parties have never supported the BJP. Both the parties would fight together to defeat the BJP without any doubt, they announced.
Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, Deputy Chief Minister Dr. G. Parameshwar, KPCC President Dinesh Gundu Rao, Minister D.K. Shivakumar were present at the press conference.
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KKR land Green for record-breaking Rs 25.20 crore; Shaw, Sarfaraz go unsold
Abu Dhabi (PTI): Kolkata Knight Riders splurged a record-breaking Rs 25.20 to land top Australian all-rounder Cameron Green even as Indian stars Prithvi Shaw and Sarfaraz Khan went unsold in the Indian Premier League players' auction here on Tuesday.
Green surpassed compatriot Mitchell Starc (Rs 24.75 crore) to become the most expensive overseas player at an IPL auction. This was after Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings were involved in an intense bidding war for him before the latter emerged winner.
KKR also went after Venkatesh Iyer before pulling out of the race against Royal Challengers Bengaluru, who fetched the services of the India all-rounder for Rs 7 crore.
As far as Green is concerned, his salary for the season would still be Rs 18 crore (USD 1.9 million) as the rest of the amount will go towards the BCCI's player development programme as per the rules of the auction for foreign players.
Green, who previously turned up for Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bengaluru, has so far played 29 matches in the IPL to aggregate 707 runs and take 16 wickets.
Shaw, however, went unsold despite his fine run of form in the domestic circuit lately, and so was the case with Sarfaraz, who smashed a 22-ball 73 in a Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy match for Mumbai on Tuesday.
Big-hitting South African batter David Miller was bought by Delhi Capitals for his base price of Rs 2 crore, but New Zealand swashbuckler Devon Conway, whose base price was also Rs 2 crore, went unsold in the auction.
Seasoned South African opener Quinton de Kock returned to his old base Mumbai Indians for a base price of Rs 1 crore.
A total of 359 players -- 246 Indians and 113 overseas players -- are part of the mini auction pool with the 10 franchises bidding to fill up a maximum of 77 slots, including 31 reserved for foreign players.
