Trouble in Cong-JD-S coalition paradise? Kumaraswamy ''unhappy'' being CM
Bengaluru, July 15
Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Saturday said that he was not “happy” heading a coalition government, an indication that not all was well in the two-month old coalition between his Janata Dal (Secular) and the Congress.
“You are standing with bouquets to wish me, as one of your brother became Chief Minister and you all are happy, but I'm not. I know the pain of coalition government. I became Vishkanth and swallowed the pain of this government,” an emotional Kumaraswamy said at an event here on Saturday.
Kumaraswamy said that he wanted to become chief minister of Karnataka to solve “people’s problems and finish his father’s unfinished agenda of his father HD Deve Gowda”.
He said: “My wish to become CM was not to enjoy the power but to solve the problems of my people of the state and to fulfill the unfinished agenda of my father which was to solve the problems of the farmers, daily wage workers and downtrodden people irrespective of caste and religion.” “But people of the state didn't take to confidence to solve all the problems,” he added.
Congress and the JD-S came together to form government in May after days of high-political drama. ANI
