‘Operation Kamala’ will not help BJP provide stable govt., says Lahar Singh

Party should allow the coalition government to fall on its own, says the MLC

Expressing the view that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cannot deliver good governance if it forms a government with the help of “defectors” , party MLC Lahar Singh on Wednesday said the party leadership should instead “wait and watch” for internal contradictions in the governing Janata Dal (Secular)–Congress combine “to go out of control”.

Speaking to

The Hindu , the MLC even argued that the coalition government would have collapsed by this time if there was no effort to bring it down earlier by the BJP.

“There are inherent contradictions and there are bound to be problems. We must allow the government to fall on its own,” he said.

He maintained that good showing by the Congress in the elections to three State Assemblies in the north was bound to work in favour of the BJP in the State. “Bolstered by the results, the Congress is sure to assert itself in the coalition. This will alter the equations within as Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy will not yield to pressures, leading to trouble,” he claimed.

“All that the BJP has to do now is to strengthen the party ahead of the Lok Sabha elections,” he claimed, while arguing against bringing down the government through ‘Operation Kamala’. He insisted that there was no such effort by the BJP. He claimed that the BJP cadre in the State was “by and large against the Operation Kamala” as that would not help the party in the long term.