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Advts: Classifieds | Employment | Obituary | Karnataka
By A. Jayaram
Siddaramaiah waving to the crowd after being sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister on Friday.
BANGALORE, MAY 28. It was the return of the Congress to power at the Centre, which made the Janata Dal (Secular), agree to join a coalition with that party in Karnataka, abandoning its oft-repeated talk about being equidistant from the two major national political parties, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Had the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) retained power at the Centre, it would have been a different political dispensation with the BJP leading the Government in Karnataka. The Janata Dal (S) leaders are stated to have considered all aspects of the hung Assembly that emerged after the elections. According to sources in the two parties, the Congress hinted to the Janata Dal (S) at every step of their prolonged negotiations of the possibility of keeping the Assembly in suspended animation and imposing President's rule in the State. They quoted the precedent in Uttar Pradesh in recent years before the BJP and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) came forward to form a coalition Ministry, and the earlier one in Jammu and Kashmir. There was also another long-forgotten precedent from Kerala. The elections held after the exit of the Congress Government headed by R. Shankar in 1964 saw the emergence of a hung Assembly. The Congress, with 36 seats, emerged as the single largest party in a House of 147 and the CPI(M) secured 26 seats. Sensing that there was no possibility of the Congress coming to power, the Centre did not allow the Assembly to come into being and fresh elections were held later. The Congress, the Janata Dal (S) and also the BJP were wary of such a situation developing in the State. The Janata Dal (S) leaders are stated to have advised their party President, Siddaramaiah, that his insistence on leading the coalition was unrealistic as a majority of the party legislators were for the early formation of a new Government. It emerged that Mr. Siddaramaiah did not have many supporters among the new legislators and he reluctantly agreed to be the Deputy Chief Minister.
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