Hyderabad, October 12: Asserting that Congress should not get the opportunity to govern Karnataka through President”s rule, the CPI today demanded that the state Assembly be dissolved and elections conducted immediately. “BJP has no right to continue in power.
We appeal to the Government of India not to allow horse-trading to go on for a long time and take immediate action, dissolve the assembly and go in for elections. We do not want President”s rule to be imposed in Karnataka.
We do not want Congress coming to power through backdoor,” senior CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta told reporters here. He alleged that democracy is in peril in Karnataka and in other parts of the country due to black money and misuse of high offices like that of the Speaker.
Highlighting how hundreds of crores of ill-gotten wealth is being spent in elections, Dasgupta demanded that state funding of elections be introduced as a remedy to curb huge expenditure by contestants. The Election Commission should monitor the expenditure by candidates in the elections scrupulously, he said.
“If horse-trading is not stopped, if the manipulation of the office of Speaker is not stopped, if the assemblies become a boxing ring, then Indian democracy will go the way in which democracy in Pakistan has gone,” he said. Observing that the ill effects of black money and muscle power have become serious malaises in Indian democracy, he said the CPI would raise the issue in Parliament.
“Alone CPI cannot set right the country, we appeal to all citizens to come together,” he said.
—PTI—