JD(S)-BJP alliance: Deve Gowda sacks rebel leader CM Ibrahim as party's Karnataka president; makes his son Kumaraswamy ad-hoc state chief

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Deve Gowda. on Thursday sacked senior leader C M Ibrahim as party's Karnataka unit chief for raising a banner of revolt against party's decision to align with the BJP for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections..

Deve Gowda dissolved the state working committee and appointed his son. as the ad-hoc president of the state unit...

Action against Ibrahim comes days after he questioned Deve Gowda's decision to join hands with the BJP..

"To strengthen the party, our national president today took the decision to dissolve the old unit and announced the ad-hoc committee in my leadership..

The BJP and the JD(S), which were decimated by the Congress in the last assembly elections, have joined hands to take on the grand old party in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections..

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