Governor’s action against Constitutional norms: Priyank Kharge

Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Priyank Kharge described Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot’s determination to permission the Joint Legislature Session without speechmaking the government-prepared address, arsenic an enactment that went against law norms.

Addressing the property league successful Kalaburagi metropolis connected Sunday (January 25, 2026), Mr. Kharge said the code drafted by the State authorities did not incorporate immoderate violative oregon derogatory references to the Union government. He said the Governor should person completed the code and past paid respect to the National Anthem alternatively of walking out. Such behaviour was not successful keeping with the dignity of the law office, Mr. Kharge expressed.

He said Legislative Council subordinate B.K. Hariprasad and MLA Sharath Bachegowda had raised objections to the Governor’s conduct. Questioning the BJP’s stance, Mr. Kharge asked wherefore the enactment was demanding enactment against the legislators portion remaining soundless connected the Governor’s nonaccomplishment to basal for the National Anthem.

Defends government’s demands

Stating that the code drafted by State authorities reflected its concerns, Mr. Kharge said it referred to letters written by the Chief Minister to the Prime Minister and Union Ministers for Jal Shakti C.R. Patil and Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, seeking the Centre’s involution connected pending issues related to Karnataka.

Mr. Kharge defended the State government’s request for grants nether the 15th Finance Commission and questioned the simplification of Karnataka’s stock to 40% nether the ‘Viksit Bharat’ framework. He said the State’s views had not been taken into relationship and that raising these issues done the Governor’s code was some morganatic and necessary. He alleged that the Governor’s behaviour appeared to beryllium guided by the Centre and the RSS.

Referring to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), Mr. Kharge said the strategy had provided captious enactment to lakhs of mediocre and backward and Dalit families successful agrarian areas. He criticised the Centre’s determination to regenerate it with the ‘Viksit Bharat’ model, noting that respective States had opposed the change. He added that the State Cabinet had decided to attack the tribunal against the move.