Deve Gowda also pitched for a 2:1 seat-sharing formula for coming Lok Sabha elections.Bengaluru: JD(S) supremo Deve Gowda has asked coalition partner Congress to treat regional parties well before striking an alliance for forthcoming Lok Sabha."Congress is big brother of secular parties.

They (Congress) should treat us well before striking an alliance for Lok Sabha polls later this year.

The seat-sharing talks are still on," he said addressing party workers late Thursday night.Mr Gowda also advised Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, who is also his son, to tolerate pain he is suffering while running coalition government."I am not going to blame anyone I know how much pain Kumaraswamy is undergoing running coalition government.

He should tolerate this to realise goal.

Whatever pains, party has to brush these aside and move forward," former Prime Minister said.These comments come in wake of Mr Gowda pitching for a 2:1 seat-sharing formula for coming Lok Sabha elections.JD(S) has been miffed with Congress for "unilaterally" appointing chairpersons to boards and corporations in state.Mr Kumaraswamy and JD(S) leader P G R Sindhia also said Congress cannot take party's leaders for granted just because they are in a coalition.Addressing party workers, Mr Kumaraswamy said coalition partners are following 2:1 formula and hoped Congress would apply same formula for Lok Sabha elections.He also asked JD(S) workers to strive to get 11 to 12 MPs elected from party.Interestingly, Mr Kumaraswamy gave credit to JD(S) on loan waiver omitting Congress and said, "The Karnataka loan waiver is a model for entire country.

The Janata Dal government made it possible."On appointment of chairpersons to boards and corporations, Mr Kumaraswamy said party would take steps in this regard soon.He, however, requested party MLAs to make sacrifices and give opportunity to party leaders who were defeated in 2018 assembly elections to head boards and corporations.