{"id":286937,"date":"2018-05-20T15:58:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T10:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=286937"},"modified":"2018-05-20T15:58:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T10:28:34","slug":"hd-kumaraswamy-to-meet-sonia-gandhi-and-rahul-gandhi-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/hd-kumaraswamy-to-meet-sonia-gandhi-and-rahul-gandhi-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"HD Kumaraswamy To Meet Sonia Gandhi And Rahul Gandhi On Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/JDS-HD.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-286938 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/JDS-HD-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"JDS HD\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"286938\" \/><\/a>JD(S) chief minister-designate HD Kumaraswamy said, he would meet Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi in Delhi on Monday to extend his gratitude to them. &#8220;I will discuss how many Congress and JD(S) MLAs will become ministers, we will decide about cabinet expansion. I will discuss everything with them on how to give a stable government for the next 5 years,\u201d said Kumaraswamy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said a coordination committee would be formed to prepare a common minimum programme to implement the promises made by the two coalition partners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier in the day, Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said, &#8220;High command will take decision. We, being a national party, supported JD(S) \u2014 a regional party \u2014\u00a0 to uphold Constitutional principles and democracy. Keeping everything in mind, there ought to be a &#8216;give &amp; take&#8217; equation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">JD(S) spokesperson Danish Ali said, that the Congress-JD(S) alliance will last for a long time and grow stronger during the 2019 general elections. &#8220;The alliance of Congress and JD(S) will be really long. You&#8217;ll see the alliance grow stronger in the Lok Sabha elections too,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">letters@tehelka.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD(S) chief minister-designate HD Kumaraswamy said, he would meet Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi in Delhi on Monday to extend his gratitude to them. &#8220;I will discuss how many Congress and JD(S) MLAs will become ministers, we will decide about cabinet expansion. I will discuss everything with them on how to give a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":286938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,36,39],"tags":[1380,236,1710,1552,1472,1430,1582,579,1701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}