Bangalore : KJP president B S Yeddyurappa on Friday charged that the BJP and JD(S) had forged an alliance ahead of the polls to local urban bodies and the Assembly to take on his party.

“The BJP and the JD(S) are like two sides of the same coin.  But the KJP will go it alone in the polls. We will not have either pre or post-poll tie-ups with any party,” Yeddyurappa told a press conference in the City.

Yeddyurappa’s charges come a day after the passage of the State budget proposals for 2013-14 in the Assembly.

He said the recent meeting of JD(S) national president H D Deve Gowda with Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar and the subsequent diatribe by the former prime minister against the KJP were indications that the two parties had joined hands.

Yeddyurappa accused Gowda of fooling people with his dual stance on Cauvery. “On the one hand Gowda advises Shettar to release Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, and on the other, he launches a padayatra against the release of water.”

He said the budget presented by Shettar was an useless exercise as it cannot be implemented due to the model code of conduct for polls to the urban local bodies. “After the ULB polls, the model code of conduct will come into force for the Assembly elections”, he said.

He said the KJP’s State office-bearers would meet on February 18 to decide the party’s strategy for the ULB polls. -DH News