Kharge terms BJP Karnataka govt "undemocratic, unconstitutional, immoral"

While speaking to media senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge criticised the BJP, saying it has no right to talk about principles as it broke all while trying to grab power in the state. He also termed the newly formed BS Yeddyurappa government in Karnataka as "undemocratic, unconstitutional and immoral".

New Delhi: Terming the newly formed BS Yeddyurappa government in Karnataka as "undemocratic, unconstitutional and immoral", senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge criticised the BJP, saying it has no right to talk about principles as it broke all while trying to grab power in the state.

The Congress leader also urged political parties believing in the Indian constitution and secularism to get together to jointly fight against the BJP.

Kharge said the Karnataka state assembly has 224 seats and a party or a group of parties trying to form the government in the southern state would require the support of at least 113 legislatures.

"BJP does not have the number. It's busy in horse-trading of MLAs to prove majority on the floor of the house after forming the government," he alleged, adding that "it was unjust and against the spirit of the constitution".

The BJP formed the government for the fourth time in Karnataka after Assembly Speaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar disqualified three Congress legislators for defying their party's whip and few days after the shaky JD-S-Congress coalition government collapsed on July 23.