Karnataka Government Formation: Our alliance with JDS ', not natural allies but.....' Congress leader on the collision with Deve Gowda party
Karnataka Government Formation: Our alliance with JDS ', not natural allies but.....' Congress leader on the collision with Deve Gowda party
The BJP that stated to be the single largest party and was invited by the Governor to form the government fell down before the floor test. The Congress and Janta Dal-Secular together formed an alliance to dismantle the BJP after the election results. The Congress state that this as 'not natural allies' but came together with the common objectives to keep BS Yeddyurappa's BJP out of the power in the state, a senior state Congress leader said.
As there was intense pressure from the Amit Shah's BJP, it was quite challenging for the Congress-JDS allies to keep their number still. The Congress says, stopped at nothing and even kept at least two Congress lawmakers, Anand Singh and Pratap Gowda Patil, in illegal confinement.
When asked, is it time for the real test of unity?
"Yes it is a test because both of us are not natural allies," Dinesh Gundu Rao, the working president of the Karnataka Congress told NDTV, pointing that the two parties "have our differences".
But at the same time, he said, they also had a common ideological stand: "Not to allow a communal force".
"Hopefully, all of us will be able to work together well and do development for Karnataka and take on this politics that the BJP is imposing on the people of this country," he said.
Meanwhile, the BJP president Amit Shah whose contribution in the assembly elections brought the states two old rivals together, however, has predicted it would not last for too long. It is an unholy alliance. He prophesied that "such a government will not last long in the state" and asked people to "just wait for one year".
JDS leader Danish Ali see that the alliance would have a positive impact on the opposition and does not see any trouble into it, "We have all decided to keep our small differences... misunderstandings aside and work together for the larger good," he said.
On Saturday, BS Yeddyurappa resigned as the chief minister of Karnataka before Floor Test.