BANGALORE, January 15: Former prime minister H D Deve Gowda has alleged that "vested interests" were attempting to create a hype in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) both in the print and electronic media.Speaking to media persons here, Gowda said the BJP was receiving undue media attention ever since the fall of the I K Gujral government. The BJP men had even infiltrated into the Prasar Bharati and were projecting the party in the visual media, he alleged.
"This naked, out-of-proportion" hype will expose the hollowness of the BJP as the people have a great deal of common sense, he added.
Gowda said even the BJP, which had been claiming that it was the only party that could form a government on its own, had now realised that coalition politics had come to stay. This was clear from the 11-party alliance, struck by the BJP for the coming Lok Sabha poll. "If they could call the UF government a `kichdi', what name could be given to its own," he asked. Reiterating that coalition politics had
come to stay, Gowda said even the once mighty Congress was now now aligning with various regional outfits. On the question of his contesting the LS polls, Gowda said he will go by the decision of the Janata Dal high command.
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