EXPRESSING HIS VIEWS: Senior BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu addressing a press conference along with party State unit president Sadananda Gowda (left) and Minister for Health R. Ashok, in Bangalore on Wednesday. — Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

Bangalore: The former president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, M. Venkaiah Naidu, on Wednesday said the State Congress leadership should seek the dissolution of Lok Sabha before demanding the dismissal of the coalition Government in Karnataka as the United Progressive Alliance Government at the Centre had more "tainted" Ministers than ever before.

He told presspersons that applying the same rationale of Congress demanding dismissal of a Government on charges of corruption, the governments of Assam, Maharashtra and Punjab have to go as the Chief Ministers there were facing "much more serious charges" than Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy.

Stating that Vande Mataram was the "real answer" to tackle terrorism and separatism, two issues which have been dogging the country for quite some time now, Mr. Naidu mentioned that the State BJP would be drawing up a programme to propagate Vande Mataram.

Mr. Naidu said the Government should have a dialogue with the managements of schools which had been derecognised as they had not followed the rules on the medium of instruction.

Mr. Naidu wondered what pressure Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had to hold a dialogue with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf at Havana recently.

He said that dialogue with Pakistan to improve bilateral relations was "untimely and harmful" to the interests of the country till such time terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan was dismantled.

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