Former minister and Chamarajanagar Janata Dal candidate Kote M Shivanna today predicted that the BJP government led by B S Yeddyurappa would collapse on its own in 2-3 months in Karnataka.
Defending his leader H D Kumaraswamy meeting Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Shivanna said he was not basing his prediction on what the Kodi Mutt Swamiji had said, but on the present political scenario in Karnataka.
“There are serious differences within the BJP. It will deteriorate further and the internal squabbles within the party will take a serious shape,” the former H D Kote MLA said.
BJP state general secretary C T Ravi, it may be recalled, had ridiculed such a possibility, while rejecting the Kodi Mutt Swamiji’s predictions, at a press meet here last Wednesday.
The JD(S) leader said Kumaraswamy met the Congress president as the Third Front leader for keeping communal parties from coming to power at the Centre. All secular parties were working towards this end and the JD(S) too was in support of it. The former CM had not said he would leave the Third Front. On the other hand, no Government can be formed without the support of the Third Front, he said.
Flaying the BJP leader’s statement, Shivanna said Kumaraswamy had not let down the people who voted for the JD(S) as charged by Ravi. Instead, they were happy with it.
It would be dangerous if the NDA was allowed to come to power, led by the BJP. The BJP may extend its dirty game of ‘Operation Lotus’ to the Lok Sabha too from the Assembly and local bodies in Karnataka. Kumaraswamy had this too in mind when he met Sonia Gandhi, Shivanna, who defected to the JD(S) from the Congress on the eve of the Lok Sabha elections, said.
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Charging the Yeddyurappa government with maladministration during the last eleven months, he said the state’s debt burden had risen another Rs 29,184 crore, law and order situation had deteriorated, and false assurances were being held out to the people. Therefore, the BJP in the State had no moral right to remain in power.
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Muthalik flayed the home minister for failing to visit Kyathamarahanahalli so far. He criticised the police for ‘releasing some persons’ involved in the incidents.