Poojary urges governor to dissolve Yeddyurappa government

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, May 14: Addressing media persons at the Press Club in Mangalore, B. Janardhana Poojary, the former union minister, demanded that H. R. Bharadwaj, the governor of Karnataka, exercise his constitutional powers and dissolve the BJP-led state government now that the Supreme Court has set aside the disqualification of 16 MLAs.

Welcoming the apex court’s order squashing Bopaiah’s decision to disqualify 16 MLAs just before the no-confidence motion last year, which ensured the survival of the BJP-led state government, Poojary said that the Supreme Court has virtually passed strictures on CM B. S. Yeddyurappa and Speaker K. G. Bopaiah.

Referring to the disqualification order as “an act of fraud played on the Constitution” by Speaker K. G. Bopaiah, Poojary urged Bharadwaj to decide whether the government should continue in power or should be dismissed.

Demanding the resignation of K. G. Bopaiah because he has meddled with legal provisions just to protect the BJP-led state government, Poojary said that Bopaiah should resign on his own without being forced to. He also said that the state government has committed another constitutional fraud by convening an emerging legislature session.

When one of the journalists questioned him about his statement that he would retire from politics if the BJP won the by-polls, Poojary said that the CM did not accept his challenge and that he certainly would have retired from politics if the CM had accepted his challenge.

Poojary, who is in-charge of the Congress Party in West Bengal, said that Mamatha Banerjee deserves all the credit for her spectacular victory in the recently held polls in West Bengal.