Congress And Janata Dal Secular To Fight 2019 General Elections Together As A Pre-Poll Alliance

BENGALURU, INDIA - JUNE 1: Congress leader K C Venugopal (L) and Chief Minister of Karnataka Kumarswamy (C )along with Dy. Chief Minister Parmeshwara (R) during a joint press conference to announce the distribution of portfolio sharing in Karnataka at a city hotel on June 1, 2018 in Bengaluru, India. The Congress and Janata Dal Secular has reached the agreement to fight the 2019 general elections together as a pre-poll alliance. The two partners have also formed a coalition coordination and monitoring committee that has to meet at least once every month and will, apart from smoothing the rough edges of running the government together, clear every appointment to statutory boards and organisations. (Photo by Arijit Sen/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)