Mysuru: Asserting that his party will come to power on its own in the Assembly polls, JD(S) Supremo and former PM H.D. Deve Gowda has said that the JD(S) will take the support of Independent candidates, who are likely to win over a dozen seats, if the party falls just short of the majority mark. Addressing a press meet at a private hotel here this morning, Deve Gowda maintained that the outcome of Karnataka Assembly polls will be a pointer to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Maintaining that the JD(S) would bag almost all the eleven Assembly segments in the district apart from Varuna and K.R. constituencies, where the party does not have a strong base, he said that the JD(S) was getting stronger even in Munbai-Karnataka and Hyderabad-Karnataka regions where the party is considered weak, even as the poll date was drawing closer.
