Bengaluru, Jul 2: Former chief minister Siddaramaiah today blamed BJP supremo Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the defection of two Congress MLAs, Anand Singh and Ramesh Jarkiholi.
Speaking to media persons, he said that the saffron party has been trying to topple the Congress-JD(S) coalition government but won’t succeed.
“Amit Shah is directly involved in this, Prime Minister also. They are offering power and money. They want to pull down this (Congress-JDS) government but will not succeed. No threat to Karnataka government. The two MLAs will not join BJP,” Siddaramaiah said.
His statement comes a day after two Congress legislators Anand Singh and Ramesh Jarkiholi resigned from the state Assembly.
Explaining the reasons behind his move, Singh said that he was leaving because some of his demands with regard to his constituency were not met. He mentioned two primary reasons that prompted him to resign: no action on his demand for formation of Vijayanagar as a district and sale of 3,667 acres of land to JSW Steel. However, the Congress believes that the BJP is luring its legislators to leave the grand old party.
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