Mysore/Mysuru: Maintaining that the JD(S) will come to power in next year’s Assembly polls, State JD(S) President C.M. Ibrahim said that there is no doubt that H.D. Kumaraswamy will return as the Chief Minister.

He was speaking at the party’s poll campaign for the Legislative Council polls from South Graduates Constituency at Alamma Choultry on Dewan’s Road in Shivarampet here yesterday.

Pointing out that what he had said on H.D. Deve Gowda becoming the Chief Minister in 1994 and his prediction that Siddharamaiah would become the Chief Minister in 2013 have come true, Ibrahim contended that his prediction that H.D. Kumaraswamy would again become the CM in 2023 will also come true and no one can stop this.

Asserting that the JD(S) has the capacity to take a firm stand on all types of issues, Ibrahim argued that neither Prime Minister Narendra Modi nor the Congress President Sonia Gandhi have this capability.

Lashing out at MP Pratap Simha, Ibrahim said that while Modi is the MP’s God, JD(S) Supremo Deve Gowda was the God of the House (Mane Devaru).

“H.D. Deve Gowda knows what type of crops are grown in which part of the State. But what does PM Modi know about it?”, he questioned. Ibrahim further said that he would talk to disgruntled MLA G.T. Devegowda and MLC Marithibbegowda and convince them against quitting the party.

MLA and former Minister H.D. Revanna said that the H.D. Kumaraswamy Government had done a lot for Graduates and Education. Maintaining that the JD(S) Government had sanctioned 600 High Schools and had appointed a good number of teachers, he contended that the Congress and BJP Governments had not sanctioned even a single First Grade College. The present BJP Government is mired in corruption, he added.

MLAs H.K. Kumaraswamy, M. Ashwin Kumar, K. Mahadev, M. Srinivas, K. Annadani and Suresh Gowda, MLCs K.T. Srikantegowda and C.N. Manjegowda, leaders Abdul Azeez, K.T. Cheluvegowda, Narasimhaswamy, Prof. P.V. Nanjaraj Urs and Corporators were present.