Bengaluru,28 July(HS): The BS Yeddyurappa led Bharatiya Janata Party government may not find it a big problem to prove its majority on the floor of the house on Monday, July 29 July. But how long and how far it will be able to provide stability looks to be a major challenge to the party managers.
Thanks to the 13 Indian National Congress(INC) and three Janata Dal-Secular(JD-S) MLAs’, who have chosen to remain far away from the proceedings of the state Assembly as well as the state itself, there is no possibility of immediate danger to the BJP government.
BS Yeddyurappa is also thinking of forming the cabinet after proving his majority in the state Assembly. As of now the strength of the ruling party is 105 while that of the opposition INC-JD-S is 100 including the KR Rameshkumar, Speaker.
The speaker usually casts his vote when there is a tie and prefers to remain neutral when the situation doesn’t warrant his vote to be polled. In the present circumstances, he has no necessity for the same.
On the face of it, the saffron party seems to be jubilant by not only forming the government but also projecting a brave face in also proving the majority. However, the party’s top brass doesn’t look to be buying the ‘over-enthusiasm’ of the state unit.
The national leaders’ of the party look to be having their reservations over forming the government in the state. During the entire election campaign for April/May 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the state BJP leaders went on claiming across the state that the day of the counting of votes will also be the last day of the coalition government.
But nothing of that sort happened on the ground and on the other hand, the coalition government appeared to be stable like it used to be.
For public perception, the BJP leaders kept on claiming that they will not unseat the alliance government but wait for it to collapse on its own.
Then, the argument put forth was that the ruling party at the Centre is not interested in toppling an alliance government which has already proved its majority on the floor of the house.
Even the state party leaders, who were till then giving deadlines for the funeral of JDS-INC government suddenly changed their public stance and instead kept on repeating: We will do nothing to dislodge the government. But if it falls on its own we’ll not shy away to form the next government.
In a way, it was a complete change of attitude in the BJP leaders who till then were forecasting the dates of the collapse of the coalition government.
This sudden change of public outbursts also became an intriguing matter and subject of discussion among political circles. However, the subsequent developments proved otherwise.
Now the moot question is whether the BJP, which is assured of proving the majority tomorrow would also provide a stable government when the INC and JDS continue to hobnob in giving a try to destabilise this government, hook or crook.
The biggest challenge for the BJP would be to placate all the 16 legislators, who have resigned risking their political career. Apart from these disgruntled elements, BJP itself has more than 60 aspirants for the 34 cabinet berths.
Of course, there is no dearth of positions like Chairmen of various Boards and Corporations, but all of them are not all that lucrative to the present-day politicians.
Whichever way, you wish to see the going doesn’t look to be all that easy for the incumbent government to handle. It needs to be seen how BS Yeddyurappa will manage it?
