Karnataka budget day fixed, BJP waits for
Yeddyurappa to srike
Tuesday January 22, 2013 12:17:13 PM,
V.S. Karnic,
IANS
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Bangalore: Karnataka
Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar is readying to present his maiden
budget Feb 8 amid claims from former BJP leader B.S. Yeddyurappa's
supporters that four ministers and 15 legislators will quit Jan 23
to pull down the government.
Shettar became chief minister last July and is heading the BJP's
third government since it came to power in the state for the first
time in May 2008. He also holds finance portfolio.
While Yeddyurappa has turned coy over his next moves, after
repeatedly threatening to bring down the Shettar government to
prevent the budget presentation, his supporters are flaunting the
names of the ministers who will quit Jan 23.
The ministers, C.M. Udasi (public works), Shobha Karandlaje
(energy), M.P. Renukacharya (excise) and Murugesh Nirani
(industries), are also keeping the Bharatiya Janata Party on
tenterhooks by maintaining silence on their plans.
Staunch Yeddyurappa loyalist and BJP legislator Nehru Olekar has
been repeating since early this month that over 20 legislators,
including four ministers, will quit the assembly Jan 23.
If the resignations come through, the Shettar government will be
reduced to a minority as the BJP's numbers will come down from 117
in the 225-member assembly to less than 100.
Of the 225 members, 224 are elected and one is nominated.
The Congress has 71 members and the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) 26.
There are seven Independents while three seats are vacant.
Yeddyurappa, who quit BJP and the assembly Nov 30 and became
president of the Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) Dec 9, is against
allowing Shettar to present the budget as that could give
advantage to the ruling party in the assembly elections due in
May.
The Congress and the JD-S are also opposing Shettar's plan to
present a full budget instead of going in for a vote on account -
legislative sanction to spend money till elections are held and a
new government takes over.
There is no legal bar on governments presenting a full budget even
though elections are just months away.
However as a matter of propriety, governments refrain from
presenting a full budget and go for a vote on account.
The Congress, the JD-S and Yeddyurappa have all been contending
that the Shettar government has in effect lost majority in the
assembly and hence has no moral right to present the budget.
Their contention is based on the fact that 15 BJP assembly members
have been openly backing Yeddyurappa and his new party since Dec
9.
At least four more assembly members have also been openly
associating with the another party founded by B. Sriramulu, a
former BJP minister and follower of former BJP minister and jailed
mining baron G. Janardhana Reddy.
Shettar and the BJP have taken the stand that since none of these
20-odd party legislators has quit the assembly so far, they are
still members of the ruling party.
The BJP has also not taken any action against the rebel
legislators in order to ensure survival of the Shettar government
till elections.
Shettar is confident that not many party legislators will quit and
he will present the budget.
To show it is business as usual for his government, he held talks
Monday with state industrialists on their wish list from the
budget.
(V.S. Karnic can be contacted at vs.karnic@ians.in)
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