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India needs leader like Narendra Modi, not tragedy king like HD Kumaraswamy, says Arun Jaitley

Hitting out at HD Kumaraswamy for his emotional speech on Sunday, Jaitley said India needs a decisive leader like Narendra Modi and not a tragedy king like the Karnataka Chief Minister.

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Union Minister Arun Jaitley lashed out at the Congress-led coalition government in Karnataka on Monday, saying the objective of such alliances is only survival and not serving the nation.

Hitting out at HD Kumaraswamy for his emotional speech on Sunday, Jaitley said India needs a decisive leader like Narendra Modi and not a tragedy king like the Karnataka Chief Minister.

His remarks come a day after Kumaraswamy's eyes welled up when he drew a parallel between himself and Lord Shiva, who "swallowed poison" to save others. In a Facebook post, Jaitley said what the Congress had done in Karnataka was a repeat of what it did to Chaudhary Charan Singh, Chandrasekhar, H D Deve Gowda, and IK Gujral. He also said the only agenda of this opportunistic alliance is to 'Keep Modi Out'.

Taking a pot-shot at the Opposition's effort to stitch a "non-ideological opportunistic" alliance, Jaitley said India cannot afford to have 'bechara' (helpless) Prime Minister. He said that in the past few days, "we witnessed" Kumaraswamy baring his emotions with tears, wetting his eyes and declining to accept bouquets and garlands.

Indicating a strain in ties with the Congress, Kumaraswamy recently said he was "not happy" as Karnataka Chief Minister. He is the CM of the coalition government, wherein Congress is a larger party.

"He was candid enough to publicly state... Listening to these statements of an Honourable Chief Minister, my memory took me back to the dialogues of the tragedy era of Hindi cinema."

"If this is the consequence of a two-party coalition, what is it that a disparate group of parties with no ideological similarity offer to India?" Jaitley said.

"If the Prime Minister of such a coalition has to weep before the cameras with an only wish of how to exit from office, it will be a scenario worse than the policy paralysis of UPA II," Jaitley said in the blog — 'Is the Karnataka a Preview of what the Congress and the Federal Front Promise for the Future?'

"The Congress firmly believes that only members of one family can rule India. If anybody else gets a chance, he should be pushed to the desperation of throwing his hands up and weeping publicly," he said. The country, he said, has been watching with keen interest the developments in Karnataka in the past two months.

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