Governor
asks Karnataka Govt. to take trust vote again
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 04:47:30 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore:
Karnataka Governor H.R. Bhardwaj Tuesday asked Chief
Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to take the trust vote afresh Thurday as
the confidence motion a day earlier was carried by voice vote and
it was vital to demonstrate proof of majority support in the
house.
"In case you are willing to do so (i.e., move the confidence
motion again), I give you a fresh opportunity to do so (prove that
you have the majority in the house) by 11 a.m. on October 14," the
governor said in a letter to the chief minister, a day after he
recommended President's Rule citing "constitutional breakdown".
Noting that the number of legislators supporting the motion and
against it was not recorded, Bhardwaj said the verdict was carried
by voice vote and the proceedings were reduced to a farce in the
presence of uniformed police and the ruckus in the house.
"A careful examination of the ad verbatim proceedings of the
assembly Monday showed that you made no serious effort to prove
your majority on the floor of the house. In the circumstances, it
is incumbent upon you to demonstrate clearly and objectively in
the assembly that you have the majority of the house," the letter
pointed out.
Referring to his Oct 6 letter to Yeddyurappa, who heads the first
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the south, the governor
said the purpose of summoning the house Monday was to enable the
chief minister to demonstrate that he continued to have the
support of the majority of the legislators.
"When the proceedings were held Monday between 10.05 and 10.10
a.m., the house was not in order with the presence of outsiders
who are not entitled to be in the house. There were also
complaints that persons who are not members of the assembly were
also raising the voice. The motion was disposed of in a split
second," the governor recalled.
The governor told reporters later that the "fresh opportunity" was
not legally binding on the chief minister as it was only a
"friendly gesture" out of kindness and in the wake of serious
objections raised by the legislators of the Congress and the
Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) as well as independents.
"My advice to the chief minister is a friendly gesture. Though it
will be unprecedented to hold a trust-vote again within days after
it was held, there is no such provision in the constitution. It is
a question of morality and upholding probity in public life,"
Bhardwaj told a hurriedly called press conference in Raj Bhavan.
Asserting that he had requested Yeddyurappa to prove majority in
the house keeping in view the Supreme Court ruling in the S.R.
Bommai versus Union of India case, the governor said a free and
fair floor test was considered the best way to test the majority
of the government in the house.
Bommai was the chief minister of Karnataka from Aug 13, 1988 to
April 21, 1989. His government was dismissed by governor P.
Venkatsubbaia after a dozen legislators of the then ruling Janata
Party withdrew support.
In New Delhi, the BJP lashed out at Bhardwaj and said he should be
withdrawn from Karnataka.
"He has defied all norms of political impartiality and
constitutionality," BJP leader Arun Jaitley said, adding that
Bhardwaj had allowed the Raj Bhavan to be used for "political
purposes".
The governor had Monday recommended President's Rule after
Yeddyurappa won a trust vote amid chaotic scenes in the assembly
and 16 rebel legislators went to the high court against their
disqualification by speaker K.G. Bopaiah even before the vote on
the trust motion was cast.
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