Politics can’t drive Karnataka in Jayalalithaa case: Milind Deora

Chennai: Congress on Wednesday said “political decisions” cannot make its government in Karnataka appeal against a court verdict acquitting AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa in assets case, but only legal merits would be considered.“This is something which will be determined not by political decisions but entirely by legal merits of the case,” senior Congress leader and former Union minister Milind Deora said.

He was responding to reporters’ queries about Opposition parties in Tamil Nadu, including DMK and Congress, stepping up pressure on Karnataka government to file an appeal in Supreme Court against Jayalalithaa’s acquittal and whether his party-run government was “facing undue pressure” from them. Deora also said the NDA dispensation “lacked imagination, was big on words and small on action.”

“They have just rehashed, rebranded and repackaged many of the UPA schemes, including those in the insurance sector,” he told reporters here.While Modi had talked of “tough foreign policies” ahead of elections, he was now touring various countries and was even seen being clicked with “animals and irrelevant objects,” he said.

While it was the right of the Prime Minister to travel different countries, he had to address domestic issues, Deora said. He also wondered what made the BJP, which had supported the Congress government piloted Land Acquisition Bill in 2013, “change its mind within 365 days,” and come up with amendments that were now being opposed not only by opposition parties but even NDA constituents like Shiv Sena. “The Modi government is big in talk, unimaginative in ideas and small in action,” he charged.