Kannada Vedike slams all three parties

Team Udayavani, May 19, 2018, 3:14 PM IST

Mysuru: Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala’s decision to invite the BJP to form the government and giving it 15 days to prove its majority in the House has been met with more outrage than expected.

Mysuru Kannada Vedike slammed the Congress, JD(S) and the BJP for not bothering about the interests of the voters. They said that the desperate positions of the leaders and their power-hungry attitudes were exposed in the way they competed against each other for the Chief Minister’s post. They gathered at Agrahara Circle and protested against the parties. They criticised the resort politics of the Congress-JD(S) and said that it was a black mark on democracy.

Members of the Communist Party of India (CPI) staged a protest near Mysuru Law Court demanding that the Governor invite the Congress-JD(S) alliance to form the government. Convener of the CPI, H.R. Sheshadri said that the Governor’s decision was “undemocratic and anti-constitutional on his part”. “A governor is supposed to protect the Constitution but in this case, Vajubhai Vala behaved like an agent of the BJP,” he added.

Writer K.S. Bhagwan also opined that the Governor should invite the Congress-JD(S) combine to form the government. “The Governor has gone against theConstitution by inviting BJP which does not have the numbers. The BJP has murdered democracy,” he said. President of Karnataka State Backward Communities Awareness Organisation, Shivaram, said that people welcomed the Supreme Court verdict which directed the BJP to prove its majority in the House.