Deve Gowda & Kumaraswamy Decline To Comment On Nikhil’s Defeat

JD(S) patriarch H D Deve Gowda refrained from commenting on his grandson Nikhil Kumaraswamy’s third consecutive electoral defeat in the Channapatna bypoll, where he lost to Congress candidate C P Yogeshwara by 25,413 votes. Both Deve Gowda and his son, H D Kumaraswamy, chose not to discuss the defeat, emphasizing the need to accept the people’s verdict.