Daijiworld Media Network - Belagavi (SP)

Belagavi, Jul 8: Former chairman of Karnataka legislative council and senior JD(S) leader Basavaraja Horatti, expressed the opinion that it would be better to go for the people's mandate afresh instead of trying to form an alternative government.

Speaking to media persons here on Sunday, July 7, Horatti regretted that the state is witnessing bad politics now. He felt that the legislators, before meeting the governor, should have submitted resignation to the assembly speaker and only thereafter should have informed the governor about it. He said that the governor has no connection with the resignations of legislators, and that the governor was not right in allowing the legislators to meet him.

He urged the assembly speaker to immediately accept the resignations of legislators. He also pointed out that no one can give ministerial berths to all the elected MLAs. He noted that the legislators are not fighting for any principles and said resigning from posts for not having been made ministers is not a good development.

Horatti said that what the chief minister, H D Kumaraswamy, will do on his return from the USA is left to him. But if the unhappy legislators do not return to the party, their resignations should he accepted and fresh election has to be held, he opined. "I feel the governor too should follow this line of thinking," he added.