10-07-2007, 03:41 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>We have learnt a lesson, says a snubbed BJP</b>
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
Posted online: October 06, 2007
The saffron dream to spread to southern part of India by installing its first-ever Government in politically significant Karnataka turned sour on Saturday as JDS patriarch HD Deve Gowda of refused to play ball despite power seems to be losing from the hands of JD(S).
For BJP, it was a rude reminder of the Mayawati episode in Uttar Pradesh, where the BSP denied sharing power in a similar fashion around a decade back.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>"The moral of the story is that we have learnt a lesson and we have to be careful in the future," senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said terming the "worst-ever betrayal". </span>
The saffron party on Saturday demanded to take people's mandate after withdrawing support to the 20-month-old HD Kumaraswamy Government in the State.
Meeting early in the day after Deve Gowda told BJP President Rajnath Singh that his party would not honour the commitment of sharing power.
<b>In the 2004 elections, which returned a hung verdict, the BJP emerged the single largest party with 79 members, while Congress bagged 65 and the JD(S) got 58 in the 225-member House.</b> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
Posted online: October 06, 2007
The saffron dream to spread to southern part of India by installing its first-ever Government in politically significant Karnataka turned sour on Saturday as JDS patriarch HD Deve Gowda of refused to play ball despite power seems to be losing from the hands of JD(S).
For BJP, it was a rude reminder of the Mayawati episode in Uttar Pradesh, where the BSP denied sharing power in a similar fashion around a decade back.
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>"The moral of the story is that we have learnt a lesson and we have to be careful in the future," senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said terming the "worst-ever betrayal". </span>
The saffron party on Saturday demanded to take people's mandate after withdrawing support to the 20-month-old HD Kumaraswamy Government in the State.
Meeting early in the day after Deve Gowda told BJP President Rajnath Singh that his party would not honour the commitment of sharing power.
<b>In the 2004 elections, which returned a hung verdict, the BJP emerged the single largest party with 79 members, while Congress bagged 65 and the JD(S) got 58 in the 225-member House.</b> <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->