The JD(S) chief alleged that ministers G Janardhana Reddy and R Ashoka were engaged in illegal activities to muster majority for Yeddyurappa.
Former chief minister and state Janata Dal (Secular) president HD Kumaraswamy on Friday urged governor HR Bhardwaj to dismiss the BS Yeddyurappa-led BJP government and impose president’s rule in Karnataka.
Kumaraswamy met the governor and submitted to him a CD allegedly containing audio and video evidence to prove that BJP MLA Suresh Gowda had sought to lure JD(S) MLA from Gubbi SR Srinivas by offering him a bribe of Rs25 crore.
The Dal chief said that the CD had adequate evidence to prove that the BJP government was engaged in horse trading and the governor should dismiss the government.
“We have submitted copies of the memorandum to president Pratibha Patil, prime minister Manmohan Singh and Union home minister P Chidambaram through the governor. We won’t rest till this corrupt government is ousted,” he declared.
“The chief minister has said that this CD is doctored. I challenge Yeddyurappa to order an inquiry into it and we are ready to face it. They can book criminal cases against Srinivas. If the chief minister has no faith in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), he can order an investigation by the state police,” Kumaraswamy said.
He alleged that ministers G Janardhana Reddy and R Ashoka were engaged in illegal activities to muster majority for Yeddyurappa.
The duo had made a mockery of the Constitution. The speaker too was guilty of gross abuse of powers for political gains, he contended.
Chief minister Yeddyurappa, meanwhile, categorically rejected the opposition allegation that that BJP was luring Congress and JD(S) and getting them to quit their assembly seats by giving them large sums of money as bribes.
“The BJP is neither influencing Opposition members to resign their seats nor is it interested in them quitting. If they (the three Opposition MLAs) wanted to leave their party, in what way am I concerned? How am I responsible?” the chief minister wondered.
Yeddyurappa said that there was no need for the BJP to take lessons from “those who hijacked 11 BJP MLAs to Chennai and Goa and kept them in captivity”.
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