From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network - Bangalore
Bangalore, Mar 7: Predicting a comfortable victory for the Congress party in Karnataka in the ensuing assembly polls, Congress party national spokesperson Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the party will not seek any party’s support come to power in the State.
''We are confident of coming to power on our own,” he said making it clear that the Congress party does not need external crutches to gain power in the State in the forthcoming assembly polls scheduled to be held towards the end of April or May.
The ruling BJP Government was mired in corruption charges and internal squabbling, he said declaring that the BJP would lose in the coming polls.
Dr Singhvi justified his criticism of the BJP rule in Karnataka for its scams and corruption charges and contended that they cannot be equated with the ongoing public debate on various charges against the Congress-led UPA regime in Delhi.
''No political party since independence had taken legal action for any misbehavior,” he said pointing out that Congress party had the courage to initiate legal action and order inquiries.
To a question on the admission of tainted leaders from BJP into the Congress, he said: ''When the winds change, you have a lot of people seeking us. There are many bridegrooms running after the bride, but the bride ultimately will be the chooser,” he said.
“We never displayed the lack of morality and lack of principle which you have been seeing from the day of inception of the BJP government in Karnataka,” explained Dr Singhvi.
Lashing out at the BJP government for its misrule, neglect of infrastructure and clinging to power immorally with the support of the Karnataka Janata Party, he said it was ironical that the the Jagadish Shettar government preferred to stay in power even though it had lost the majority and all moral right to do so.
''The BJP divorced KJP but chose to maintan a living together relationship,” he said.
To a pointed question on why the Congress did not move no-confidence motion against the BJP state government if it had lost the majority in the House, he said: ''The party did want to fall into the trap, particularly when it is creaking and breaking due to contradictions within. We know for sure that we have electorates mandate and we are coming back to power and therefore we are not for it.”
Several infrastructure projects had been stalled and the progress and development of the State suffered due to indecision of the Government, he claimed.
Noting that the party would adopt “zero tolerance” towards issues related to corruption, Dr Singhvi expressed confidence that the party come to power on its own in the State.
Answsering a question Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s eagerness to become the Prime Minister and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s reluctance, he said: “the tragedy of Modi is his over-eagerness. It is matched by under-eagerness within his own party and NDA. Rahul Gandhi will take his own decision at the appropriate time.”