Bommai lacks conviction on Maha issue: Kumaraswamy

The former chief minister of Karnataka, HD Kumaraswamy, toured the Nagamangala Assembly segment, a political hotbed, on Monday and ended his weeklong pancharatna yatra in Mandya district. The yatra will roll onto neighbouring tumakuru district on Tuesday. On the last day of the yatra, JDS workers and leaders prepared garlands made with cucumbers, coconut, sevantige flowers, cabbages, roses, paddy, corn, and sugarcane and presented them to Kumaraswamy. Nagamangala Mla Suresh Gowda was present responding to former Maharastra CM Uddav Thackeray's statement that Belagavi district should be declared a union territory. Kumaraswamy said the state government has lost its backbone as BJP leaders from Karnataka including CM Basavaraj Bommai lack courage and conviction to declare that the issue is settled. Speaking to reporters, he said it was condemnable that the Maharashtra BJP along with many parties and the government of Maharashtra are demanding the merger of Belagavi district with Maharashtra "This will harm the federal system of governance BJP leaders' concept of one country one language and one election is wrong." He said "Bommai