Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that a fractured verdict will affect development as political stability is a precursor to administrative stability.
Addressing mediapersons in Mysuru on May 6, the Leader of Opposition said that the BJP is facing anti-incumbency across Karnataka, and the Congress would get a clear mandate in the coming Assembly elections on May 10. Whenever there was a fractured mandate — as in 2004 and 2008 elections — it had resulted in the formation of a coalition government, and the State’s development was affected as, in the absence of political stability, the administrative efficiency also took a hit, which people have realised.
He said people were fed up of ‘unbridled corruption of the BJP’. Though the allegations were being made since the last 18 months, no action was initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai sought ‘documentary evidence’ to substantiate the allegations overlooking the letters of distress alleging corruption written by contractors’ association and school managements’ association. Citing the sub-inspectors’ recruitment scam, he said, “All of these were a pointer to how deep corruption was entrenched under the BJP.”
