Bengaluru: Unconfirmed sources are not ruling out resignation by a few newly-elected lingayats of Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) for denial of opportunity for state BJP president B.S. Yeddyurappa to become the chief minister despite his party emerging as single-largest.
“Though, it may not happen immediately it is bound to occur in the next few days as they feel blood is thicker than politics. When the electorate has given 104 seats it is improper on the part of the government to enter into an unholy alliance with the Congress is playing its politics of convenience to cover up its defeat”, sources claimed.
The sources pointed out there is lot of opposition within the Congress for forging an alliance with the JD(S)-a party known as ‘opportunist’. They feel that the JD(S) chief ministerial candidate, Mr H.D. Kumaraswamy, will be in a driver’s seat as it was the Congress that went all out to extend its support despite winning 70 plus seats and not the other way round.
Lingayat plan didn’t work for Congress
At the end of counting of votes on Wednesday, Karnataka stared at a phase of political uncertainty with the Assembly polls throwing up a hung verdict as none of the major parties — BJP, Congress or JD(S) — was able to secure the magic number of 113 required to form a government though the BJP emerged as the single largest party with 104 seats.
The CM himself managed to barely scrape through in Badami with 1,696 seats, the second seat he fought from, but the massive blow to Congress prospects in central and north Karnataka proved that the Lingayat gamble of offering the dominant community in Karna-taka, religion status had not worked at all.
All eyes are now on Governor Vala amid conflicting reports of horse-trading with repo-rts suggesting that some five Lingayat MLAs from the Congress are already missing. The BJP needs eight more MLAs to reach the 112 mark.
Meanwhile, the JD(S) has reportedly whisked away its MLAs to a resort to make sure they are not poached upon by the BJP in its effort to scramble together a majority.
