NDA, leaders led by senior BJP leader L. K. Advani met the Prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh at his residence and put their demand before the prime minister.
Briefing media persons after his meeting Advani said that he has also asked the Prime Minister to reject the recommendation of the Governor for imposition of President’s rule in the state.
The Karnataka Governor has sent his recommendations to the President for imposition of President’s rule in the state after the Supreme Court quashed the disqualification of 11 BJP and five independent legislators by the speaker of the Karnataka assembly in October last year.
Meanwhile, the Karnataka BJP Legislature Party adopted a resolution at a meeting describing Bhardwaj’s recommendation as politically ill-motivated and against the spirit of the Constitution. They also demanded to convene the assembly session on second of June.
Senior party leader M Venkaiah Naidu said that the legislators will be paraded before President Pratibha Devisingh Patil in New Delhi tomorrow to expose the Governor’s anti-democratic act.
Meanwhile Congress on Monday dubbed the BJP dispensation in Karnatka as illegal and “based on a manufactured majority”.
“Do they have moral right to continue even for a single moment after the very pungent observations from the Supreme Court,” Congress spokesman Manish Tewari told reporters in reply to a volley of questions on the political developments in Karnataka.
Quoting some of the strictures by the apex court, Tewari insisted that “after October 11, 2010, it is an illegal government in Karnataka based on a manufactured majority through