Left and Janata Dal (Secular) leaders are expected to chalk out a joint strategy on the evolving situation in Karnataka in the wake of the controversy over governor H.R. Bhardwaj’s recommendation for imposition of President’s Rule in the state.
Leaders from the CPI(M), CPI, Forward Bloc and TDP will discuss the issue at a breakfast meeting with JD(S) chief H.D. Deve Gowda here on Thursday, party secretary-general Danish Ali told an agency. Mr Gowda is arriving in the national capital on Wednesday, he said.
He said that both the Left and his party are of the firm view that the Karnataka chief minister and the Assembly Speaker should quit in the light of the Supreme Court’s observations against the trust vote the BJP government secured in October last year. “The chief minister and the Speaker should not stay in their chair even for a second. If the BJP high command has any moral authority, it should ask them to quit,” he said.
Mr Ali, who met CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat and CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan, said that the leaders had agreed to attend the meeting.