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Former Deputy Chief Minister K.S. Eshwarappa has accused the Congress of influencing the result of the caller MLC elections done inducements, informing that specified tactics would pb to electoral decision akin to what the BJP experienced.
Speaking astatine a property league present connected Monday, Mr. Eshwarappa, who was expelled from the BJP, said the Congress engaged successful “purchasing” MLAs to unafraid cross-votes during the caller assembly polls. “The radical of Karnataka volition cull this corruption conscionable arsenic they rejected the BJP’s akin tactics successful erstwhile elections,” helium said.
He drew a parallel to the JD(S)-Congress conjugation era, when, helium alleged, the BJP deployed fiscal inducements to transportation Congress legislators to resign and subsequently contention elections. “We gave them wealth and made them resign. Again, we spent wealth to get them won successful the elections. However, our ain well-wishers did not o.k. of this. They rejected the enactment successful the adjacent elections. The aforesaid volition hap to the Congress now,” Mr. Eshwarappa maintained. He was portion of the BJP during those developments.
Mr. Eshwarappa besides criticised BJP State president B.Y. Vijayendra’s connection to convene a enactment legislature gathering successful Dharmasthala, Dakshina Kannada, wherever legislators would instrumentality an oath earlier the Lord Manjunatha shrine to show loyalty.
“Religious spaces should not beryllium dragged into governmental disputes,” Mr. Eshwarappa said. “There is simply a hazard that legislators mightiness instrumentality mendacious oaths earlier Lord Manjunath and aboriginal question forgiveness earlier Lord Annappa,” helium added.
He called for an enquiry into the alleged cross-voting during the caller MLC.
