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Express News Service
BENGALURU: 25 years after JDS leader HD Deve Gowda ascended the Prime Minister’s seat on June 1, 1996 the party is celebrating the event, hoping to revive and reinvent the regional outfit. Gowda (88), one of two prime ministers from this side of the Vindhyas, and Karnataka’s kingmaker even today, had been catapulted into the top post after P V Narasimha Rao of the Congress failed to garner the numbers, as also Atal Behari Vajpayee of the BJP. Vajpayee had been sworn in Prime Minister, but fell short of numbers and resigned after 13 days. It was the United Front, a coalition of regional parties, which went on to form the government.
He said if the prime minister had information about a “secret meeting” between senior Congress leaders and the Pakistan envoy and its ex-foreign minister which was “anti-national”, then why did he not use the Intelligence Bureau and other agencies at his disposal.