What prompted the ministerial defections to Ramakrishna Hegdes Lok Shakti in Karnataka?
There is no defection. It is dual loyalty. How will the JD fare in Karnataka? The JD’s performance would be better than what it was in 1996. Take it from me. Do you feel Ramakrishna Hegde has done considerable damage to the party in Karnataka? It is for the people to judge the behaviour of every leader including Ramakrishna Hegde and Deve Gowda. It is for the people to decide. Do you feel the media has been antagonistic to you? I don’t want to make general remarks. I don’t want to make sweeping remarks about the media. In my country the media can play its own role. Freedom of press is there. It is for them to take their own views about the leaders. I don’t want to comment on it. The media had painted you as a sleepy prime minister? Why only that, they painted so many pictures of me. So many pictures! What can I do about that? Like, what other pictures? An incompetent prime minister who does not know the language; does not know what this great nation is all about. So many things they ha
