Within hours of BS Yeddyurappa being sworn in as chief minister, Congress was sharpening a legal strategy to ask the Supreme Court on Friday to declare him a caretaker CM until the floor test.
This was prompted by the new CM’s decision to announce a farm loan waiver soon after he took office. Lead counsel for Congress Abhishek Manu Singhvi told ET that this went against the spirit of the Supreme Court’s early morning order after an all-night hearing.
“The court has explicitly made the assumption of the chief ministership dependent on its further orders… with such a tenuous existence, he (Yeddyurappa) chooses to have a single-person cabinet meeting with himself and announces a significant policy decision like a farm loan waiver. Clearly even if he continues, he must remain in some capacity as a caretaker till he passes the floor test,” he told ET ahead of the SC hearing on the matter on Friday.
Karnataka governor Vajubhai Vala’s decision to hand out a 15-day window for floor test to Yeddyurappa may come under closer legal scrutiny as BJP itself asked for lesser time. The new CM did indicate after his swearing-in that he may not need that long to prove his majority.
While BJP and Congress prepared for round 2 of the legal challenge, non-BJP parties mounted a coordinated political protest in states where they were not in power despite being the single-largest party in the assemb ..
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This was prompted by the new CM’s decision to announce a farm loan waiver soon after he took office. Lead counsel for Congress Abhishek Manu Singhvi told ET that this went against the spirit of the Supreme Court’s early morning order after an all-night hearing.
“The court has explicitly made the assumption of the chief ministership dependent on its further orders… with such a tenuous existence, he (Yeddyurappa) chooses to have a single-person cabinet meeting with himself and announces a significant policy decision like a farm loan waiver. Clearly even if he continues, he must remain in some capacity as a caretaker till he passes the floor test,” he told ET ahead of the SC hearing on the matter on Friday.
Karnataka governor Vajubhai Vala’s decision to hand out a 15-day window for floor test to Yeddyurappa may come under closer legal scrutiny as BJP itself asked for lesser time. The new CM did indicate after his swearing-in that he may not need that long to prove his majority.
While BJP and Congress prepared for round 2 of the legal challenge, non-BJP parties mounted a coordinated political protest in states where they were not in power despite being the single-largest party in the assemb ..
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