The Janata Dal (Secular) national executive held a meeting in Bengaluru Saturday and expelled former Karnataka unit chief C M Ibrahim and national vice-president C K Nanu from Kerala for indulging in “anti-party” activities and opposing the party’s alliance with the BJP for the Lok Sabha polls next year.
Former PM and JD(S) patriarch H D Deve Gowda announced the decision which comes ahead of a December 11 meeting of a parallel national executive called by Ibrahim, who claimed to be the head of the “original JD(S)”.
Deve Gowda said, “Former party president C M Ibrahim was part of discussions regarding alliance with the BJP for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls along with me and the chairman of the party core committee, G T Deve Gowda.” However, Ibrahim, he said “gave statements to the press that were damaging to the party and we have decided to expel him from the party.”
When on October 16, Ibrahim, who was appointed state unit chief in April 2022, slammed the party leadership to align with the BJP for the Lok Sabha elections, Deve Gowda dissolved the state unit and appointed his son Kumaraswamy as its ad hoc president.
Ibrahim had on December 8 announced that he would be organising a national-level meet of JD(S) leaders who are against the JD(S)-BJP alliance on December 11.