10-07-2007, 03:26 AM
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Kumar Uttam | New Delhi
All Karnataka parties go into snap poll mode
Karnataka is heading for a mid-term poll with the BJP on Saturday announcing withdrawal of support to the HD Kumaraswamy Government and the JD-S and Congress refusing to do business with each other.Â
<b>The BJP national leadership has asked Deputy CM BS Yediyurappa and State president Sadananda Gowda to return to Bangalore and hand over the letter of withdrawal of support to the Governor. </b>
They have been asked to brief the Governor about the circumstances compelling the party to take the decision and ask him for an early poll.
<b>Late in the night, Kumaraswamy forwarded the resignations of 18 BJP Ministers to the Governor.</b>
The decision to snap ties with JD(S) was taken by the BJP Parliamentary Board on Saturday after JD(S) patriarch and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda bluntly told BJP chief Rajnath Singh on Friday night that the JD(S) would not hand over power to a BJP Chief Minister as per their 20-month-old agreement. Earlier, Singh briefed senior party leaders about the outcome of the meeting he had with Deve Gowda.
Member of Rajya Sabha and BJP's Karnataka in-charge Yashwant Sinha said the party was against forming a Government by engineering defection and would go for mid-term polls.
He lashed out at the JD(S) for not honouring the agreement.<b> "The issue is that a party headed by a former PM, is not ready to honour a pact," </b>senior party leader Venkaiah Naidu said, adding that it was the worst-ever betrayal by a political party and the people of Karnataka will teach lesson to the betrayers.
The BJP, which wanted Yediyurappa to replace Kumaraswamy as CM, said it had learnt a lesson and would henceforth be careful.
<b>The JD(S), meanwhile, hit back at the BJP saying the decision not to transfer power to its ally was because of the defamation campaign against their Chief Minister and Deve Gowda and "Sangh Parivar's attempt to turn Karnataka into a Hindutva laboratory."</b>
A resolution adopted by the PAC of the JD(S) said the BJP had done so as it was afraid of the growing popularity of Kumaraswamy and JD(S) good showing in the local bodies elections.
Gowda also favoured fresh elections saying his intention was to go for people's mandate. Announcing that the JD(S) would be equidistance from both the Congress and the BJP, the former Prime Minister said his party would not enter into any kind of arrangement with the Congress to remain in power. The Congress, too, dropped enough hints that it was not eager to do business with JD(S) in the wake of the BJP withdrawing support to the State Government.
The AICC Media Department Chairperson M Veerappa Moily dubbed both JD(S) and BJP as "power hawks and power hungry parties" while remaining tight-lipped on the future action of the party in the State.
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Pioneer.com
Kumar Uttam | New Delhi
All Karnataka parties go into snap poll mode
Karnataka is heading for a mid-term poll with the BJP on Saturday announcing withdrawal of support to the HD Kumaraswamy Government and the JD-S and Congress refusing to do business with each other.Â
<b>The BJP national leadership has asked Deputy CM BS Yediyurappa and State president Sadananda Gowda to return to Bangalore and hand over the letter of withdrawal of support to the Governor. </b>
They have been asked to brief the Governor about the circumstances compelling the party to take the decision and ask him for an early poll.
<b>Late in the night, Kumaraswamy forwarded the resignations of 18 BJP Ministers to the Governor.</b>
The decision to snap ties with JD(S) was taken by the BJP Parliamentary Board on Saturday after JD(S) patriarch and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda bluntly told BJP chief Rajnath Singh on Friday night that the JD(S) would not hand over power to a BJP Chief Minister as per their 20-month-old agreement. Earlier, Singh briefed senior party leaders about the outcome of the meeting he had with Deve Gowda.
Member of Rajya Sabha and BJP's Karnataka in-charge Yashwant Sinha said the party was against forming a Government by engineering defection and would go for mid-term polls.
He lashed out at the JD(S) for not honouring the agreement.<b> "The issue is that a party headed by a former PM, is not ready to honour a pact," </b>senior party leader Venkaiah Naidu said, adding that it was the worst-ever betrayal by a political party and the people of Karnataka will teach lesson to the betrayers.
The BJP, which wanted Yediyurappa to replace Kumaraswamy as CM, said it had learnt a lesson and would henceforth be careful.
<b>The JD(S), meanwhile, hit back at the BJP saying the decision not to transfer power to its ally was because of the defamation campaign against their Chief Minister and Deve Gowda and "Sangh Parivar's attempt to turn Karnataka into a Hindutva laboratory."</b>
A resolution adopted by the PAC of the JD(S) said the BJP had done so as it was afraid of the growing popularity of Kumaraswamy and JD(S) good showing in the local bodies elections.
Gowda also favoured fresh elections saying his intention was to go for people's mandate. Announcing that the JD(S) would be equidistance from both the Congress and the BJP, the former Prime Minister said his party would not enter into any kind of arrangement with the Congress to remain in power. The Congress, too, dropped enough hints that it was not eager to do business with JD(S) in the wake of the BJP withdrawing support to the State Government.
The AICC Media Department Chairperson M Veerappa Moily dubbed both JD(S) and BJP as "power hawks and power hungry parties" while remaining tight-lipped on the future action of the party in the State.
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