He told mediapersons that he did not have any knowledge about Krishna meeting Deve Gowda after the former became the Chief Minister. The party have nothing to do with Deve Gowda, he clarified.

Both Deve Gowda and Lok Shakti leader Ramakrishna Hegde were trying to come together again for the third time and a meeting was proposed to be held in this regard on December 11 here, he claimed. The people have become clever and would never allow any such unholy alliances, he added.

He criticised Deve Gowda and his sons for reversing the developmental works in Hassan district taken up by the Congress government.