"Congress party president Mallikarjun Kharge should get the resignation of this racist Jameer first if he can maintain morals for the party," the JD(S) in its statement added.
JD(S) second-in-command and two-time chief minister H D Kumaraswamy won the Channapatna seat for the sixth time on Saturday. Kumaraswamy received 96,592 votes against 80,677 polled by his BJP rival C P Yogeshwar.
Janta Dal (Secular) leader and former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy on Thursday irked controversy by making a ridiculous jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Chandrayaan 2 mission failure. Kumaraswamy blamed PM Modi or supposedly bringing “bad luck” for scientists after stepping at the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) centre to watch Chandrayaan-2 mission.
The statement came after Congress’ C Puttaranga Shetty, a minister in the state government, said that for him, Siddaramaiah was still the chief minister.
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