BJP will stake claim to power if Cong-JDS govt falls: Sadananda Gowda

Press Trust of India  |  Bengaluru 

The BJP would stake claim to power in if the Congress-coalition government falls, Union D V Sadananda said here on Tuesday, hours after two Independent legislators in the state withdrew support from the seven-month-old Kumaraswamy dispensation.

said the would collapse on its own due to squabbling and that the Congress-'friendship" was on the "brink of divorce".

"The friendship is at the brink of divorce. It is time for break-up. A party with 37 seats has formed the government. It will collapse on its own due to squabbling. If the government collapses, we will certainly form the government," he told reporters here.

was replying to a query on whether there was any likelihood of the BJP staking claim to power in the event of the collapse of the coalition government.

The and had formed the government after the May 2018 assembly polls threw up a fractured verdict with the BJP emerging as the single largest party with 104 seats in the 224-member Assembly.

The had secured 79 seats and the JDS 37.

BJP member said it was everybody' wish to see Yeddyurappa as the next chief and the party would not sit quiet after winning 104 seats.

"We do have the wish to see Yeddyurappa as the next chief How can we sit quiet after winning 104 seats? When these people (and JD-S) formed the government we were quite depressed because public opinion was in favour of the BJP. Indeed, numbers matter in democracy," said Simha.

He, however, sought to know why the coalition government was sitting on shaky ground.

"Why is the coalition government so shaken? Are the ruling party MLAs so weak? Is it so that the MLAs are so depressed with this government? Are no development works happening? Had it happened then, the MLAs would have focused on their constituency," Simha said.

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First Published: Tue, January 15 2019. 17:45 IST