Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today hit out at the Congress, calling it "arrogant" and its leadership "feudal" for celebrating a "victory of jugaad" after BJP's B S Yeddyurappa resigned as the Karnataka chief minister without facing the floor test.
The Minority Affairs minister used a popular couplet of Urdu poet Allama Iqbal and said there are several contests to go before the Congress burst into celebration.
"Advice to 'arrogant' Congress and its 'feudal leadership', who are celebrating 'victory of Jugaad' 'Sitaron Ke Aage Jahan Aur Bhi Hain, Abhi Waqt Ke Imtehan Aur Bhi Hain' (there is world beyond stars, many test of times yet to be held). #FloorTest," Minority Affairs Minister Naqvi said on Twitter.
The three-day-old BJP government in Karnataka collapsed today, minutes before the scheduled trust vote, with Yeddyurappa resigning as chief minister in a tame anti-climax to what was building up to be an edge-of-the-seat political thriller.
The BJP had emerged as the single largest party in the Karnataka Assembly polls, winning 104 seats. The Congress and the JD(S) had won 78 and 37 seats, respectively, and announced a post-poll alliance and staked claim to form the government.
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