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Moily: we don’t want to fish in troubled waters

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NEW DELHI: Union Law Minister and Congress general secretary M. Veerappa Moily told The Hindu from Bangalore that the Congress was not interested in forming a government in Karnataka even if some BJP MLAs led by the Reddy brothers split from the party and agreed to join hands with his party. “We are not interested in fishing in troubled waters. Why should we bother about their [BJP] internal affairs.”

On complaints that flood relief works were affected due to the crisis in the BJP government, he shot back: “Even otherwise they are not doing any work.”

While the State government claimed that the flood-relief works were not affected, the Congress, the main Opposition party in Karnataka, complained of slackness in the work. A delegation of the Karnataka Congress Committee led by its president R.V. Deshpande met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and demanded, among other things, speedy assistance from the Centre and complained about the tardy pace of relief measures by the BJP government.

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