Congress Denies Of Having Reached Out To JD(S) Amid Reports Of Karnataka Hung Assembly

Congress on Friday denied having reaching out to JD(S) amid reports that it may play a big role in the event of a hung assembly NDTV report said.

According to the report in NDTV, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said his party would win a “thumping majority” and that it would decide its moves based on the numbers tomorrow,

“The numbers will tell us what to do,” the report quoted Kharge as having said.

“We will take a call after the results,” he said as per the report.

Kharge denied that he is in talks with the JDS after a leader claimed the party had decided whom to tie up with, the report said.

“Nobody. We are reaching out to nobody,” the report quoted Kharge as having said.

Many exit polls have predicted a majority for the Congress in the polls that took place on Wednesday. 

However, a fractured verdict has not been ruled out, which leads to the possibility of the JDS playing kingmaker. 

In 2018, the BJP emerged as the single-largest party but fell short of a majority. 

The Congress and JDS formed a coalition government, which crashed 14 months later after mass defections to the BJP.

On Thursday, a JDS leader claimed that the party had received feelers from both the Congress and the BJP and that a decision had been taken, which set off fierce speculation about a BJP-JDS tie-up.

The comment came from JD(S) leader Tanveer Ahmed.