“We may have formed the government in Karnataka by getting a comfortable majority of 136 seats. But the threat of the BJP poaching our MLAs and trying to dislodge the government remains,” Satish Jarkiholi, KPCC working president and Minister for Public Works, said in Belagavi on Monday. “That is why, we are trying to strengthen our pack by inducting Opposition party legislators who want to join the Congress,” he told journalists.
“Despite having a comfortable majority of 136, we are not free of the threat of the BJP engineering defections and trying to bring down our government. We are trying to avert any such development in future. We need a bigger strength of MLAs to avoid poaching by the BJP,” he said.
