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Karnataka BJP in trouble, two ministers quit
Wednesday January 23, 2013 05:29:11 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore: The BJP
government in Karnataka Wednesday faced a serious threat of
survival as two ministers quit the cabinet and 13 party
legislators, including the two ministers, announced they will
resign from the assembly too.
Public Works Minister C.M. Udasi and Energy Minister Shobha
Karandlaje, loyalists of former BJP leader B.S. Yeddyurappa,
submitted their resignations to Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar
here.
Shettar told reporters, before leaving for a two-day tour of north
Karnataka, that he had received the resignation letters and would
take a decision after "considering them".
Udasi, Karandlaje and 11 other legislators, however, could not
submit their resignation from the assembly as Speaker K.G. Bopaiah
was out of Bangalore.
The absence of the speaker led to high drama in his chamber as
Udasi, Karandlaje and other legislators waited for him for about
an hour.
The legislators were upset that Bopaiah was not present even
though he had been "informed about our coming to meet him today
(Wednesday)," Udasi told reporters in the speaker's chamber.
Yeddyurappa, who came to the speaker's office after learning about
the drama, lambasted Shettar, Bopaiah and the ruling Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) over the development.
"This is a shameless government. The speaker is not present even
though he had been informed. He should be brought back within 24
hours," he said.
He also demanded that Shettar return to Bangalore immediately and
quit as he had "lost majority".
Yeddyurappa appealed to people to "gherao" (lay siege to) Shettar
to force him to return to Bangalore.
Udasi, Karandlaje and other 11 legislators met Governor H.R.
Bhardwaj and briefed him about the speaker not being present to
receive their resignation letters even though he had been
"informed" about it.
"We gave copies of our resignation letters to the governor and
briefed him about the developments. We requested him to take
action according to constitutional provisions," Udasi told
reporters outside Raj Bhavan (governor's official residence).
"The governor has assured us that he would act as per the
constitution," Udasi said.
Earlier, Bhardwaj, who returned to Bangalore Wednesday from New
Delhi, told reporters that he had no role to play in the unfolding
drama but would act to prevent any constitutional crisis.
Udasi and the legislators who are quitting the assembly will join
the Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) headed by Yeddyurappa to
strengthen it ahead of the assembly elections due in May.
Yeddyurappa, the BJP's first chief minister in the state, quit the
party and the assembly Nov 30 to form and lead the KJP as he was
not made state BJP chief.
He was forced out of the chief minister's post in July 2011 over
mining bribery charges.
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