Bengaluru, June 8 -- Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge on Monday criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over naming M Nagaraja as its Rajya Sabha candidate from the state, asserting that the BJP-JD(S) "coalition is on shaky ground".

Speaking to reporters, Kharge added that the Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal (Secular) alliance is facing internal uncertainties. He said that the BJP may have thought that Janata Dal (Secular) National President and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda "would not add value anymore."

"If the BJP-JD(S) alliance is on a sticky wicket, what does it matter to the Congress? Whether to give it to Mr Deve Gowda or anybody else. It shows that their coalition is on shaky ground, or maybe they thought t...