KARNATAKA ELECTIONS

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Recently concluded Assembly elections in Karnataka was a great Natak. The election results saw BJP garner 104 seats Congress 78 and JD(S) Led by Shri Kumaraswamy 38 and two independents in the house of 224 where 3 seats will see by election in June. Immediately after the results the congress announced that it would support Shri Kumaraswamy of JD(S) as Chief Minister, the two independents also assured support to Kumaraswamy. The total became 118. six more than the simple majority. The irony is both Congress and JD(S) fought fiercely against each other but now joined to defeat the BJP. Politics they say has strange bedfellows.

But the Governor had other ideas. He invited B.S.Yedurappa of the BJP to form the Govt. beng the single largest party and gave him time for 15 days to prove his majority. The other two parties cried hoarse. Along with them the entire opposition Mamta, Chandrababu Naidu, Chandrasekara Rao, Sharad Pawar, Sitaram Yechury, Farooq Abdullah et al. They resorted to resort politics taking their flock of MLAs to a hotel and put them in under watch and ward!! Then they knocked the doors of the Supreme Court at Midnight and the Supreme Court conducted the hearing at Midnight where arguments went till dawn and it ruled that Yedurappa should prove his majority within 24 hours.

Yedurappa resigned on the day he was to prove his majority. Automatically the Governor called Kumaraswamy to form the Govt. and prove his majority within 15 days. Kumaraswamy proved his majority today.

For the past ten days ie from 15.5.2018 to 25.5.2018 there was cacaphony. The TV anchors, the participants and all and sundry criticising the Governor attacking Modi for trying to engineer defections. Murder of democracy and all.
 Now the question that is foremost in our minds is how long with this unholy alliance of JD(S) and Congress Last. Surely not five years. May be six months or till the next General Elections in May 2019. Then once again there will be elections.

The Westminister System of parliamentary democracy has failed us. It is high time we think about an alternative system. May be a proportional representation.


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