Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today slammed the BJP for putting "hurdles" in conducting the trust vote in Karnataka Assembly and asked how many "tricks" the saffron party will "invent" to win it.
The Congress and JD(S) directly approached the apex court instead of the state high court.
"First, give us 15 days. Second, Anglo Indian member. Third, secret ballot. Fourth, colluding pro-tem Speaker. Fifth, under invention!
"How many tricks will the BJP invent before the Karnataka Assembly votes on the motion of confidence? How many hurdles will they place?," he tweeted.
The former finance and home minister said if 221 elected men and women (in Karnataka as MLA) cannot decide who among them enjoys the confidence of the majority "Why call ourselves a democracy?".
The B S Yeddyurappa government of the BJP is facing a trust vote today following a Supreme Court order after the Congress-JD(S) combine claimed that it has more numbers than the saffron party.
The May 12 Assembly poll has given a fractured mandate in which BJP got 104 seats, Congress 78 and the JD(S) 38 in the 224 member House. Polling in two constituencies did not take place due to various reasons.
The Congress and JD(S) formed an alliance after the results and staked claim to form the government.
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