Bangalore: JD(S) national president H D Deve Gowda has warned party MLAs hobnobbing with Congress leaders that they are free to leave the party, just a day later addressing the party workers conference his son Kumaraswamy stated that the same, adding a diplomatic note to it.

On Monday August 18, at the state level conference held at Bangalore, when Kumaraswamy asserted that the CM is trying to create difference between the party worker when there is unity and understanding among the workers,.

He alleged that the chief minister was trying to create misunderstanding among us by giving out some reliable source based information to the media about the two party MLAs, Zameer Ahmed and Cheluvarayaswamy, meeting him.

There has been a fury among the party leaders after it became known that a few MLA’s could either join any of the two national parties or remain in JD(S) and work to strengthen it for the upcoming Assembly bypoll in Shikaripura constituency.

During the conference JD(S) workers demanded that Kumaraswamy be made the state President to strengthen the party in the state.