Mysore/Mysuru, March 28 -- H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK), former Chief Minister and National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate for Mandya Lok Sabha (LS) Constituency, asked whether Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is an astrologer to predict his defeat in the ensuing elections. It is for the voters of the Constituency to decide such matters.

Speaking to media persons on the sidelines of BJP and JD(S) Coordination Meeting at Hotel Southern Star in city on Wednesday, HDK said "Let them say whatever they want dubbing me as an outsider or insider of Mandya. But I am a Kannadiga, who got his political birth in Ramanagar and political force in Mandya and Mysuru."

"When my son contested the previous Lok Sabha elections, even Congress party was with us. ...