Un représentant des basses castes en responsabilités au sein du Parti du Congrès ?

THE TRIBUNE
New Delhi, July 22

As the JD(S)-BJP coalition appeared fragile and ridden with controversy, the Congress got a boost in Karnataka with former Deputy Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, a known detractor of former Prime Minister and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda, joining the party.

The prominent OBC leader, who is a friend-turned-foe of Gowda, gave indications that he would like to be a Congress Chief Minister whenever the party would come to power.

“I have joined the party without any condition...I am not joining the Congress with that ambition. But every leader wants to become something in politics. We are not sanyasins,” he said when asked whether he would like to become Chief Minister.

Siddaramaiah, who quit his assembly seat early this week, had a meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi and later announced his joining the party accusing the former Prime Minister of “burying” the JD(S) by joining hands with “communal” BJP to gain power. — PTI