The BJP on Sunday said it was “shocked and outraged” by the “partisan and unconstitutional” behaviour of Karnataka governor, H.R. Bhardwaj.
The BJP appealed to the President that Mr Bh ardwaj should be recalled as he has “lost both legal and moral authority to discharge his role as the President’s appointee.” In a statement issued, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Ms Sushma Swaraj said Mr Bharadwaj “has thrown all established norms to the winds by his highly objectionable communication to the Hon’ble Speaker of the state Assembly.” The senior BJP leader alleged that the “tone, tenor and content” of his letter to Speaker made it clear that the “governor is determined to interfere with the legislative process and infringe on the authority of the Speaker.”
a constitutional functionary, namely, the Speaker.”
Ms Swaraj further said “the governor has in effect, threatened that if the Hon’ble Speaker does not act in a particular manner as directed by the Raj Bhavan, the outcome of the Vote of Confidence in the Assembly scheduled for Monday October 11, 2010 will not be ‘acceptable’.”
She alleged it was a “brazen attempt to influence the result of the vote and is in total violation of the letter and spirit of successive Supreme Court verdicts specifying that the floor of the House is the only place to determine the majority or otherwise of a government.”