Newsinc24 Team 
JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy on Saturday said joining hands with the Congress and forming coalition government with the party has destroyed the goodwill that he had earned from the people of the state and maintained for 12 years.The former Chief Minister said, he fell to the "trap" and accused Congress leader Siddaramaiah of a conspiracy, as he stated that even BJP had not "betrayed" him to that level.
Speaking to reporters in Mysuru, he said he should not have joined hands with Congress which had campaigned against the JD(S) calling it BJP's "B team", but because of party supremo HD Deve Gowda's insistence he agreed to form the coalition government."It has now led to my party losing its strength....I fell to the trap, to emotional feelings of Deve Gowda because of which my party that had won 28-40 seats independently in the last three elections is suffering, " he said.He maintained that joining with Congress was the reason for the downfall of his party and his personal goodwill. Kumaraswamy however clarified that he was not blaming Gowda for it, as he knows and respects his father's lifelong commitment towards secular identity.
Hitting back, Siddaramaiah said Kumaraswamy was an "expert in lying" and shedding tears was his family's culture. Kumaraswamy is an expert in lying, he can lie according to the situation for the sake of politics...was making him Chief Minister despite JD(S) having 37 seats our fault? Shedding tears is the culture of the Deve Gowda family, nothing new in it, they can shed for appeasement or to make someone believe," he added.
Kumaraswamy, while responding to Mr Siddaramaiah's recent statement that there is always an internal understanding between JD(S) and BJP citing his meetings with Mr Yediyurappa twice in the last couple of months, said the CLP leader should stop making such baseless allegations.
