Bengaluru, June 20 -- Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Friday hit out at Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy, saying that he would neither win nor form a government in the state.

Speaking to reporters at his Sadashivanagar residence, he said, "Kumaraswamy had called on his supporters to get ready for a BJP-JDS government. I replied to him then, stating that I would present him with a suit (clothes) if he won the election and formed the government in 2028."

Shivakumar was replying to a reporter asking for his response on Kumaraswamy's statement that he wasn't that poor to take clothes from him.

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