Madikeri: The former Minister M.C. Nanaiah has urged Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy to seek dissolution of the Legislative Assembly because, according to him, the constitutional machinery has failed in Karnataka.

Mr. Nanaiah told presspersons here on Friday that the present dispensation was the most corrupt that the State had seen. People were confused, he said.

What had the Kumaraswamy government achieved in the last six months, Mr. Nanaiah asked. Janata Dal (Secular) and Bharatiya Janata Party leaders were issuing differing statements from time to time. People had lost faith in the coalition government.

A people's movement was needed to dislodge the Government, he said. Mr. Nanaiah sought to play down the claims of Deputy Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa that 1.75 lakh bicycles would be distributed to girl students in government schools in the State, terming it a political gimmick. He likened it to the promises made by the former Chief Minister S. Bangarappa, who had promised distribution of boiled eggs to 56 lakh students every day in the State during his tenure. It, however, turned out to be a fiasco. Mr. Nanaiah asked Mr. Yediyurappa to drop the move to provide bicycles to the students, which would cost Rs. 35 crore. Instead, he should take steps for construction of school buildings and toilets, providing desks, benches and other basic facilities. He was critical of the statements made by Mr. Kumaraswamy that the Government would adopt 1,000 villages in the State and allot of Rs. 1 crore each to develop them.

The Government would require Rs. 1,000 crore for this purpose. He wondered whether it was possible for a Government that had not paid arrears to the tune of Rs. 600 crore to contractors in the State for the last couple of years.

`File criminal charges'

Mr. Nanaiah urged State BJP president D.V. Sadananda Gowda to file criminal charges before the inquiry commission probing the Telgi scam against the former Chief Minister S.M. Krishna and the former Home Minister M. Mallikarjun Kharge, for both were said to have met Abdul Karim Telgi, the main accused in the fake stamp paper scam. Mr. Gowda had alleged that he had evidence to prove that Mr. Krishna and Mr. Kharge had met Telgi at the Parappana Agrahara jail during the Congress regime, he said.

The allegations made by Mr. Gowda were serious since the BJP was part of the ruling coalition. If the charges made by Mr. Gowda were true, then Mr. Krishna and Mr. Kharge should retire from politics.

If Mr. Gowda did not file a written complaint against the two, he should step down or the BJP should shunt him out of the post of State president, he said.

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