Left, JD(S) to work out joint stragey on Karnataka crisis

Left and Janata Dal Secular leaders will chalk out their joint strategy on the evolving situation in Karnataka in the wake of the controversy over governor HR Bhardwaj's recommendation for imposition of president's rule in the state.

Leaders from CPI(M), CPI, Forward Bloc and TDP will discuss the issue at a breakfast meeting with JD(S) chief HD Deve Gowda here tomorrow, party secretary general Danish Ali told PTI. Deve Gowda is arriving in the national capital tonight, he said.

Ali, who met CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat and CPI general secretary AB Bardhan, said that the leaders had agreed to attend the meeting.

Other leaders to attend tomorrow's meeting are RLD chief Ajit Singh, CPI leader D Raja, Forward Bloc general secretary Debbrata Biswas and representatives from TDP.

"We have called for the meeting to take a joint view on the prevailing situation in Karnataka about the governor's recommendation and the manufactured majority on the basis of which the BS Yeddyurappa government is continuing there. We will finalise some joint strategy," Ali said.

He added that both the Left and his party are of the firm view that the Karnataka chief minister and the assembly Speaker should quit in the light of the Supreme Court's observations against the trust vote the BJP goverment secured in October last year.

"The chief minister and the speaker should not stay in their chair even for a second. If BJP high command has any moral autho, it should ask them to quit," he said.