“One of the two missing MLA-elects from the Congress camp, who have been hijacked by my BJP friends, will return home (back to the party) tomorrow in Bengaluru,” Janata Dal (Secular) State president and former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy said on Friday.
“We are in touch with him and he will come back to our camp,” he told presspersons in Hyderabad without revealing the identity of the leader. All the JD(S) MLA-elects, he said, are with the party and the combined alliance of the JD(S), Bahujan Samaj Party and Congress will show its strength and defeat the motion moved by Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Saturday, he said. On whether he was in touch with MLA-elects in the BJP camp, he merely said he had good relationships with some of them.
On the appointment of former Speaker and BJP member K.G. Bopaiah as the pro tem speaker by Governor Vajubhai Vala, Mr. Kumaraswamy said this was done under the influence of Mr. Yeddyurappa. “The Supreme Court has passed strictures against Mr. Bopaiah in a 2010 case for misusing the office... the Governor’s move seems to be encouraging similar things again,” he said.
Mr. Kumaraswamy, who was expected to return to Bengaluru late on Friday night, said: “We will form a stable government the day after tomorrow. We are going to sit in the Assembly peacefully.”
