Haveri, May 11 -- Former Chief Minister and MP Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said that the Congress party survives on the support of other parties in most states, except Karnataka.

He remarked while inaugurating the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Training Camp organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party at Veerabhadreshwara Sabha Bhavan in Karadagi, Savanur taluk of Haveri district.

Paying tribute to Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, Basavaraj Bommai said he envisioned a nationalist party focused on nation-building over electoral gains, and alleged that while the BJP practices "people's politics," the Congress has reached a stage of survival politics and depends on other parties in most states except Karnataka.

"Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya had said that...