Yogeshwar, Narasimha Nayak are set to join Congress
The Bharatiya Janata Party government is hanging by a thread just a few months ahead of the Assembly polls as two of its Ministers, C.P. Yogeshwar and Narasimha Nayak (Raju Gowda), on Thursday resigned from the Ministry. They are also set to quit their Assembly seats on Friday and are set to join the Congress.
If their resignations are accepted by the Speaker on Friday, the strength of the BJP in the 208-member Assembly will be reduced to 106, including the Speaker, a nominated member and an Independent who is part of the Ministry.
The BJP government will lose its majority if four more MLAs quit. While resignations by two MLAs, Vittal Katakdonda and Tarikere Suresh, are pending with the Speaker, speculation is rife that two or three more MLAs who are keen on joining the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular) are waiting for clearance from those parties to quit their Assembly seats.
Mr. Yogeshwar (Channapatna) and Mr. Nayak (Shorapur) met Governor H.R. Bhardwaj before submitting their resignations to Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar. Mr. Yogeshwar termed this as a “courtesy call”.
Both these leaders are said to have decided to join the Congress and contest the next Assembly elections. Though they wanted to quit their Assembly seats only after declaration of the Assembly elections, the announcement of elections to urban local bodies made them advance their decision. “Since the ULB polls are like the semi-finals ahead of the Assembly elections, they have to get ticket for their followers in their constituencies to contest the ULB polls. Hence they did not have any option but to the quit the BJP now,” sources close to them said.
However, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president G. Parameshwara reiterated that the Congress high command was yet to give clearance for admitting them to the party.
Responding to this, Mr. Nayak said, “We have been talking to them for a long time and the clearance is almost through.”
Keywords: Karnataka politics, BJP, Jagadish Shettar cabinet, C.P. Yogeeshwara, Raju Gowda
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Simply throw away these unscrupulous politicians. Do not trust
them. These politicians are bought and sold even as rotten carrots. The
political parties are equally unscrupulous.
FAKE DEMOCRACY IN ACTION - - In India this is how governments capture and stay in power...the one man one vote system is perverted and is completely irrelevant...people are irrelevant....the trick is after the election....money is used to buy elected representatives...thus the need for so many scams, because huge money is needed to buy the MPs and MLAs..and the desperate need to capture power is also because to deny the other party to get power and get the same chance to secure money through scams - because the fear is there, they will do the same rot to buy MPs and MLAs.. ..WE MUST HAVE THE RIGHT TO RECALL THE PEOPLE WE ELECT. It is urgently needed. Otherwise this whole democracy as we call it will continue to be a fake democracy with people thrown into the dustbin for 5 years, after they cast their votes
Public shouldnt entertain these D Graded politicians who resign only when their party rule is coming to end.they are just concerned about their power & position.
Now how president reacts to this development. Party prepares to go election under Jagdish Shetter leadership and no one is ready to stop elected representatives to migrating to other parties and putting resignation. When Sadananda Gowda was CM said he became with the help of his community while addressing in Palace Ground gathering. But now party neglected and ignored him made him to red and to bargain that power started absenting to meetings and announcing quitting his seat. Even he said like that no MLA or Minister commented including his own community leaders now how he reacts to this development and again put blames on Yeddi. Yeddi rightly said there is no strong leadership in BJP to retain leaders not to hop other parties maintaining their political prospectus.
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