JD(S) president Deve Gowda suspends senior leader CM Ibrahim for ‘anti-party activities’

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Bengaluru: Senior JD(S) leader C M Ibrahim was on Friday suspended by the outfits president H D Deve Gowda for anti-party activities...

Gowda had replaced Ibrahim as the party state president on October 19 and appointed his son H D Kumaraswamy in his place...

Ibrahim had raised a banner of revolt against the JD(S) decision to join the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA)...

A former union minister, Ibrahim claimed that his faction is the original JD(S) for being secular and that being the state president he can take a decision about the outfit in Karnataka...

He had appealed to Deve Gowda to reconsider the decision on the tie-up with the BJP, claiming that many party leaders have quit the outfit in the neighbouring states following the move..

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