Cong-JDS dalliance worries state BJP govt

B D Narayankar

Bangalore: The Congress and the Janata Dal (S) have entered into a diabolical plot to get the BJP government in Karnataka dismissed following a non-BJP government coming to power at the Centre in the national elections. Leftists too are co-partners in this sinister design.

This is reflected in the statements made by Congress and JDS leaders. Recently, JDS supremo Deve Gowda at the rally to launch the third front at Dobbaspet said, "Give me maximum number of Lok Sabha seats. I will see that the BJP government in Karnataka is removed."

Then, AICC general secretary in charge of Karnataka Ghulam Nabi Azad was categorical when he said that the BJP government in State ‘would be sent home’ if the people elect a large number of Congress MPs from State.

"What do these statements – which are explosive in content and malicious in intent – mean? It only means that there is a deep-rooted conspiracy to destabilize and oust the BJP government headed by BS Yeddyurappa on some pretext or the other," medical education minister and veteran BJP leader Ramchandra Gowda said.

In fact, getting the BJP government dismissed is one of the pre-condition for the Congress and the JDS to support each other, to enable the formation of a non-BJP government at the Centre. This explains why JDS state president H D Kumaraswamy has been camping at Delhi in a bid to secure a ministerial berth in the UPA government.

"I have informed the same to my party’s national president, Rajnath Singh and L K Advani about the deep-rooted conspiracy of this terrible troika – the Congress, the JDS and the Leftists – to dislodge the BJP government," medical education minister and veteran BJP leader Ramchandra Gowda said.

"The JDS-Congress dalliance has exposed the hollowness of the former by denying an inner pact with the Congress," said BJP leader L R Shivarame Gowda.

State party chief D V Sadanand Gowda said the Congress would ruin itself if it gave a ministerial berth to Kumaraswamy at the centre. "The inner pact between JDS and Congress was always there and people of the state have voted against their nefarious plot," he said.

Gowda also said that the Congress cannot destabilize the BJP government in the state by any means. "It would be just a dream for the Congress," he said.

Gowda also dismissed the possibility of Congress launching 'Operation Hand' to grab BJP MPs, just like 'Operation Lotus' in the state. "Most other party leaders who joined BJP have received people's mandate. I consider it as political polarization," he added.

Gowda also said the new government at the centre should not mete out step-motherly treatment to the state.

Transport minister R Ashok slammed the JDS-Congress meet. "Such alliances will not work. We too have enough tricks up our sleeve. The BJP government is solid like a rock and it will last its full term of five years," he said. The Congress, however, is unfazed by the BJP opinion.