Gujarat's Dalit leader and newly-elected MLA Jignesh Mevani on Monday, 29 January, urged the Karnataka electorate to not vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the upcoming Assembly polls, and said he will campaign against that party in the southern state.
"I'm ready to compromise with my ideologies to save our Constitution and to keep the BJP from winning the Karnataka elections," Mevani said, speaking at a commemoration event held in Bengaluru on the birth anniversary of slain journalist Gauri Lankesh.
He also said that mainstream political parties from Karnataka should form an alliance to defeat the BJP.