Bengaluru: Karnataka’s Regional Party Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) that is sharing power with the Congress in the State today made some major changes in its organisational set up even as Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy is away in the US on a private visit. JD-S supremo and former PM H.D. Deve Gowda this morning appointed Dalit leader H.K. Kumaraswamy as Party’s State President and grandson Nikhil Kumaraswamy (son of CM H.D. Kumaraswamy) as Party’s Youth Wing President at a function held at Party Office (J.P. Bhavan) in Bengaluru.
H.K. Kumaraswamy, MLA from Sakleshpur (SC reserved), succeeded Hunsur MLA A.H. Vishwanath, who recently resigned from the post. Kumaraswamy is a six-time MLA from Hassan district.
