Bengaluru: State President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) B S Yeddyurappa on Saturday, January 19, said that the Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) need not worry as the BJP was not seeking to displace the coalition government.
However, he indicated that a volcano may erupt in the coming days as some Congress MLAs had skipped the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting.
The CLP meeting was called as a show of strength against an alleged bid by the BJP to topple the Congress-JD(S) coalition government.
Yeddyurappa said, “The absence of Congress MLAs from the CLP meeting and deep differences between the coalition partners are an indication that this is likely to erupt as a volcano in the next coming days.”
“Their absence also shows intense and widespread anger and resentment among Congress MLAs,” he added.
The BJP chief said the tone of CLP leader Siddaramaiah’s warning to the party MLAs showed his frustration and fear.
“Mr Siddaramaiah, the tone, tenor and content of the meeting notice given by you to the MLAs shows your frustration and proves that you are gripped by fear. If your relationship with the MLAs was strong and cordial, why did you mention in the notice that action would be taken as per the anti-defection law?” asked BSY.
Yeddyurappa also attacked Congress General Secretary K C Venugopal over his remarks that ‘Operation Lotus’ commenced in Karnataka in 2008.
“In 1967, the then prime minister Indira Gandhi had said that ‘gaya ram has now become aaya ram’ when an MLA of her United Front government had joined and quit the Congress three times in a gap of 15 days,” he said.
“It looks like that Siddaramaiah has forgotten that he too joined the Congress with the same culture,” the former chief minister added.
