Enjoying absolute majority and no threat to coalition Government: Kumaraswamy
TNN Bureau. Updated: 1/15/2019 8:11:56 PM
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Bengaluru, Jan 15(UNI) Playing down the withdrawal of support by the two independent MLAs, Chief minister, H D Kumaraswamy, who is heading the JD(S)-Congress coalition government, has said that “There is no threat to my government”.
Sharply reacting to the independent MLAs decision to take back the support, Chief minister said that “I enjoy the confidence of the majority of MLAs in the Assembly”.
Maintaining that the JD(S) was able to form the government in the state with the strong support of the Congress to keep the communal forces away from the seat of power, he said that “withdrawal of the independent MLAs, does not matter for the stability of the government”.
KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao, said that “The coalition government never depended on the support of the independents”.
“The efforts of the BJP to bring down the government will not succeed and prove futile” he said.
However sensing trouble to the stability of the coalition government, the AICC General Secretary, K C Venugopal, who is also party incharge for Karnataka, is holding a series of meeting with the senior party leaders and also ministers.
The AICC functionary, who had rushed to Bengaluru, late last night has summoned the Forest minister, Satish Jarakiholi, Industry minister K J George and others to work out a strategy to defuse the situation, following aggressive attempt being made by the BJP leaders to pull down the coalition government in Karnataka.
The AICC leader, also reportedly trying to contact each and every Congress MLAs, who are in contact with the BJP leaders, the sources added.