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BJP accuses PM, Sonia behind failed floor test.
New Delhi, July 30:
The BJP, which lost the floor test in the Goa assembly, today accused Prime
Minister Manmohan
Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi of extending "extra-constitutional
support" to their party-led coalition there to enable it to retain power.
The saffron party also accused the two leaders of attempts to subvert
democracy, citing the role of the Goa Assembly Speaker in the floor test.
"Both these leaders have planned an institutional framework to subvert
democracy at will," party leader Arun Jaitley said. "... It became
clear today that this minority of 18 MLAs had extra-constitutional support
of
Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh."
Jaitley, whose party had mounted a bitter campaign against UPA-Left
presidential candidate Pratibha Patil, alleged that Singh and Gandhi had
been
instrumental in installing such people in constitutional positions who would
safeguard their interests and "subvert" the constitution by
"bending" constitutional prerogatives.
He accused Speaker Pratapsingh Rane of institutionalising a government that
he
claimed had lost a majority.
If "pigmies", he claimed, occupied constitutional offices, such acts
of "subversion" of democracy and constitution would follow.
Jaitley, who called Singh and Gandhi "architects of subversion of
democracy in Goa", alleged that the speaker engineered a tie by
"unconstitutionally" restraining three MLAs from voting and then
showed his "hidden individual bias" by using his casting vote in favour
of the ruling coalition.
"Our party will decide its future course of action in Parliament, the
state Assembly, in the court and in the streets soon," he said.
Cong makes counter-accusation against BJP
The Congress, meanwhile, dismissed the BJP charge that the victory of the
party
in the floor test in Goa Assembly is a murder of democracy and accused the
saffron party of attempting to make a backdoor entry to power in the state.
Party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi told reporters that the Digambar Kamat
Government was sought to be destabilised by "vested interests" for
their selfish ends in the wake of its decision to review the controversial
Regional Plan which envisages use of the coastal areas for construction
actvities.
"What was involved in Goa was commerce and economy on the land deals and not
ideology and
politics," he said.
