Addressing the media, he said that Operation Lotus, which brought the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power in the state, would prove to be its undoing.
Supporting governor HR Bhardwaj’s recommendation of president’s rule in Karnataka, former prime minister and JD(S) supreme HD Deve Gowda on Tuesday exuded confidence that the Union government would accept the proposal.
“He (Bhardwaj) has acted within the ambit of power. I don’t know when the Union government will take a decision based on his report, but certainly it will accept the recommendation of governor HR Bhardwaj and keep the legislative assembly in suspended animation” said Devegowda.
Addressing the media, he said that Operation Lotus, which brought the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power in the state, would prove to be its undoing. “The BJP government was born because of Operation Lotus and it is surviving with that and it will end with the same operation,” said Deve Gowda.
Terming Operation Lotus as cancerous, the former prime minister lashed out at BJP for indulging in the unfair practice which “wooed opposition MLAs to quit their seats and join the party by offering ministerial posts, heads of state-run boards or corporations and hefty special grants for their constituencies”.
Deve Gowda demanded the resignation of chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and assembly speaker KG Bopaiah in view of the Supreme Court verdict quashing disqualification of 16 MLAs, including 11 BJP rebels. “After the Supreme Court passed strictures against the speaker, he has no moral right to continue in the office,” he said.
Deve Gowda also said that the apex court in its order had also referred to how the chief minister used the speaker to manipulate the vote of confidence on October 11, 2010 to save his government and demanded that he too tender resignation. The BJP should elect a new legislative party leader, said the JD(S) supremo.
Deve Gowda said BJP was following double standards — at the national level it was fighting against UPA government over 2G, CWG and Adarsh scams, but was not raising voice on the charges faced by its own chief minister Yeddyurappa.
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