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Bangalore: Governor Keeps BJP, JD (S) on Tenterhooks

  •   Tue, Oct 30 2007 09:52:15 AM

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Bangalore, Oct 30: If anybody can use time as a weapon, it was Karnataka Governor Rameshwar Thakur. On Monday, he kept the JD(S) and the BJP on sharp political tenterhooks by using the provisions of the Constitution to the fullest extent.

He chose to study the legal and Constitutional angles from all directions rather than hand over the reins of the government to the BJP-JD(S) combine.

The rulebooks do not say that the Governor must act in one or two days. It should be within a `reasonable’ timeframe. And that is what Thakur chose to opt for on Monday.

At the end of the day, there were smiles on the faces of the BJP-JD(S) MLAs as they had the number and had successfully thwarted the efforts of the Congress and its pointsman – former Home minister M P Prakash – to split the JD(S). But the Congress has not given up as yet.

So this is how Monday madness ran out:

Chief minister aspirant and BJP’s posterboy B S Yeddyurappa got elected as the leader of the joint legislature party.

Former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy won over six of the 10 MLAs identified with Prakash and consolidated the camp with 42 of the total 57 MLAs. He even made a last minute effort to woo Prakash, who remained defiant and even submitted a letter to the Governor seeking to dissolve the Assembly.

BJP-JD(S) MLAs submit affidavits with individual letter of support by 129 MLAs including six independents. The two parties paraded the MLAs before the Governor to convince him that they indeed have majority on their side. They were also armed with the letter of support sent in earlier in the day to the Governor by former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda.

The partners are also considered sending copies of individual letters of support extended by 129 MLAs to President Pratiba Patil to exert pressure on the Congress from taking any extreme decision.

For the Congress it was a lost opportunity and time to introspect at former CM Dharam Singh's House. By noon, the mood in the Congress was one of despair as Prakash - on whom they had pinned hopes to wreck the coming together of JD(S)-BJP - failed to get numbers in his favour to form a government.

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