Sonia will decide on polls: Dharam Singh

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Bangalore, Dec 26 : Karnataka chief minister N Dharam Singh today remained non-committal on the possibility of the Congress, now sharing power with JDS, seeking a fresh mandate if it did well in the zila and taluk panchayat polls held this month.

The counting of votes would be taken up on Tuesday. Both the Congress and JDS had fought the elections bitterly in the first acid test of their strength at the grassroot level after the Assembly elections.

Asserting that the ground situation was very much in favour of the Congress in the panchayat polls, Mr Singh told reporters here that any decision on the Assembly elections would have to be taken by party president Sonia Gandhi.

“Next year, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal...are going to polls. This is the only coalition government...to prevent certain forces, we have come together. (However) securing majority (on our own).. Sonia Gandhi will take a decision. We will abide by that decision,” he said.

Mr Singh said the people’s ‘enthusiasm’ for the Congress was clearly evident during the polls and dismissed the talk about his party having entered into a clandestine pact with JDS.

He said both the Congress and JDS had not crossed the Lakshman rekha in the campaign for the elections to panchayati raj bodies which was held in two phases.

Mr Singh said he would expand the ministry, but declined to specify any timeframe.