BJP 'open' for negotiations with Deve Gowda
New
Delhi,
Oct
3:
As
clouds
of
mid
term
polls
in
Karnataka
loom
large
the
BJP
leadership
today
kept
its
'doors
open'
for
talks
with
the
Janata
Dal
(Secular)
which
is
dilly
dallying
on
the
issue
of
transfer
of
power
to
its
coalition
partner
in
the
state
before
mid-night
tonight,
the
mutually
agreed
deadline.
BJP President Rajnath Singh said the BJP Parliamentary Board will take a view on the issue tomorrow, adding that there could be meeting with Janata Dal (Secular) President H D Deve Gowda when he would be in Delhi for attending his party's Political affairs Committee meeting on October 5. He said the BJP was still hopeful that the coalition partner would stick to the promises made to the people of the state.
He declined to make comments on the rationale behind J D (S) unwillingness to pass on the power to the BJP during the 'inauspicious pitru paksha'.
All the BJP ministers, including Deputy Chief Minister and Chief Ministerial nominee B S Yediyurappa have tendered their resignations to Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy to step up pressure on the coalition partner. The Chief Minister has asked the BJP not to precipitate the matter until October 5.
UNI