Chennai: DMK working president M. K. Stalin flayed Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala’s decision to invite the BJP to form the government and said this “hasty” decision is “arbitrary and unconstitutional.” It would lead to “horse-trading” he alleged.
Stalin, first political leader to greet BJP’s B. S. Yeddyurappa for his electoral victory and also his party in the Karnataka Assembly elections on Tuesday and urged the new government to release the Cauvery water due for Tamil Nadu, took to Twitter to criticise the decision to invite Mr Yeddyurappa to form the government.
“The Karnataka Governor’s hasty invitation to the BJP to form Government despite the majority of MLAs forming a post-poll alliance of INC-JD (S)-BSP is arbitrary & unconstitutional. Such a move will only serve to enable horse-trading and destroy our democratic foundations,” Mr Stalin tweeted in support of ally Congress which had supported H. D. Kumaraswamy to stake the claim.
BJP legislature party leader B. S. Yeddyurappa was on Thursday sworn in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka.
The Congress, which has entered into a post-poll alliance with the JD (S), termed Yeddyurappa’s oath as Chief Minister of Karnataka “farcical” and said the party’s “irrational insistence” on forming government in the southern state when it does not have the numbers made a “mockery of the Constitution.”
Continuing the tirade, Stalin said in another tweet: “People of Tamil Nadu are familiar with the BJP’s efforts to protect the corrupt ADMK government, which also incidentally does not enjoy the majority support in the Legislative Assembly. Constitutional institutions and principles are under threat from these actions.”
