Bengaluru, Feb. 10 -- Union minister and Janata Dal (Secular) state president HD Kumaraswamy on Monday declared the expulsion of senior MLA GT Deve Gowda from the party, even as he accused chief minister Siddaramaiah of attempting to weaken the JD(S).

GT Deve Gowda is a veteran JD(S) leader and the sitting MLA from Chamundeshwari in Mysuru district. He has represented the seat since 2013.

In the 2018 assembly elections, Gowda defeated Siddaramaiah by a margin of over 36,000 votes in Chamundeshwari, which the latter had held multiple times, dealing a major setback to his political standing.

"GT Deve Gowda is not with us. You (the media) should not ask about him," Kumaraswamy told reporters on Monday.

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