BANGALORE: The Opposition Congress and JD(S) on Monday sought to move an adjournment motion in the Legislative Council over Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa’s statements that the two were behind the recent church attack. The statements, coming from the Chief Minister, amounts to “a Constitutional crisis in the making”, the Opposition said.
The Congress and the JD(S) were referring to Yeddyurappa’s statements made outside the House where he had said that the church attack was a conspiracy to destabilise his government.
Making the preliminary submission, the Congress’ leader in the House V S Ugrappa also referred to the recent war of words between the Raj Bhavan and the Governor. “ The government which is at loggerheads with both the Governor and the opposition cannot be trusted with the protection of minorities or the common man in general,” Ugrappa said.
JD(S) leader M C Nanaiah insisted that the Corps of Detectives (CoD) probe ordered into the attacks be withdrawn now that the Chief Minister has directly accused the opposition parties. “The probe is irrelevant now, withdraw it. We are ready to face the charges and respond to them in the House”, he said.
It is against the rules and the established norms, they said and challenged the Chief Minister to personally file a complaint with the jurisdictional police, if he has any proof against them.
Not dwelling on the Chief Minister’s statement, Leader of the House and Home Minister V S Acharya said that the government was ready to table the preliminary report on the incident,