Bengaluru: Former PM H.D. Deve Gowda, who has contested the election from Tumkur Parliamentary Constituency yesterday said,  “I will sit by Rahul Gandhi’s side if he becomes Prime Minister.”

“I announced three years back that I will not contest elections. There are circumstances now in which I have been forced to contest. There is nothing to hide. I have no ambition of anything but what I always said is that I am not going to retire from active politics,” the JD (S) chief said.