Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'BJP in a hurry to defeat Cong-JD(S) in Karnataka' that was published in Newsband

BJP in a hurry to defeat Cong-JD(S) in Karnataka

The BJP is impatient to return to power in Karnataka. B.S. Yeddyurappa was unable to reconcile himself to the failure to wrest Karnataka from the grip of the Congress in last year’s Assembly election. He wants to become Chief Minister again.

But the H.D. Kumaraswamy government has appointed of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate into a corruption incident in which MLA. Yeddyurappa is allegedly involved.

In 2018, the BJP finished as the single largest party, but a post-poll coalition of the Congress and the JD(S) denied Yeddyurappa the chance to form the government. He was forced to step down in 2011 as Chief Minister in the wake of corruption charges,

Seven Congress MLAs and one JD(S) MLA stayed away from the Assembly proceedings, raising the suspicion that the BJP was actively wooing dissidents in both the parties to bring down the government. But BJP leaders are now the victims of their own design,

The wiser course for the BJP would have been to politically capitalise on the internal contradictions of the coalition government rather than resort to covert means to destabilise it.

Yedurappa should be removed as head of BJP party in Karnataka, either by taking him to centre or his position in state, since chances for BJP to get people mandate is slim because he has such a tarnished life full of corruption that people do not trust him.

In this form of parliamentary democracy the scope of corruption has been kept open for the drama to continue giving scant attention to the jobs the parties have been assigned to. If a person wants to switch sides after winning votes on a particular symbol he is inescapably outraging the people's mandate which is apparently considered sacrosanct in a democracy. This should be made mandatory in a bid to curb this menace of changing sides that those who want to switch sides after winning election on a particular symbol should resign first from the post of MLA or MP and then should take the plunge of switching sides.The existing anti defection law should be thoroughly reviewed. Unfortunately, no political party seems to be interested in taking the bulls by the horns, they are interested in spending time over these dramas rather than doing something to purge the system. Yedurappa is just taking the opportunity of the loopholes of the system. Politics is after all not for seers or saints.

We have come to analyse the efficiency of corruption in bringing down a government. In some sense this is tantamount to accepting the legitimacy of such corrupt acts in a democracy. Corruption appears to be the new normal in India's politics.

BJP is in a hurry to bring down the Cong-JD(S) Government in Karnataka before the Lok Sabha polls. BJP is definitely flustered by the coming together of the opposition.