BANGALORE: Former Minister and Congress MLC B.K. Chandrashekar and former Higher Education Minister G. Parameshwar have said Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy should resign in the light of "increasing" differences between the coalition partners — the Janata Dal (Secular) and the Bharatiya Janata Party.

They told The Hindu here on Friday that in the four months after the formation of the coalition government, the Chief Minister had said twice that he was ready to resign. State unit president of the Bharatiya Janata Party D.V. Sadananda Gowda had said Mr. Kumaraswamy could so if he wanted, and that was an indirect suggestion to him to resign in the light of the resentment towards the proposed law which was aimed at taking over the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor project, Prof. Chandrashekar and Mr. Parameshwar said.

The former Ministers said it would be better for the Chief Minister and the Janata Dal (S) to end the alliance with the BJP as both parties had differences on key issues.

They said that recommending elections would be the right decision for the Government. Decision on important issues, including the BMIC project, could be taken on the basis of the people's mandate. The Janata Dal (S) had no moral right to table a Bill on takeover of the project as its coalition partner was opposed to it, they added.

Prof. Chandrashekar and Mr. Parameshwar alleged that the problems related to the BMIC project occurred because of the mindset of the Janata Dal (S), which was "anti-development". There were hurdles to all projects, including the expressway and the metro rail, they said.

Prof. Chandrashekar said that during the term of the previous government, of the Congress and the Janata Dal (S), the latter had prevented then Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh from taking up projects, including the international airport and Arkavathi layout. He said the State's image among investors had suffered a setback.

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