BJP has murdered our democracy: Sanjay Nirpuam on Karnataka Elections

Amidst a huge uproar in Karnataka after the assembly elections, Mumbai Congress President Sanjay Nirupam on Friday slammed the Karnataka Governor’s decision for inviting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to form the government in the state.

In a protest organised in Azad Maidan where Former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan along with hundreds of Congress workers was present, Nirpuam claimed that the decision taken by the Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala to let BS Yeddyurappa take oath as the Chief Minister without majority was “unfair”.

Karnataka Governor, a staunch RSS man, allowed the BJP to form the government on the basis of the BJP being the largest party – with a large number of seats. To this, Sanjay Nirupam said that “There are three states – Goa, Manipur, and Meghalaya - where Congress was the single party receiving the highest number of seats but it wasn’t invited to form the government. Instead, the Karnataka Governor invited the post-poll alliance of BJP to form the Government.”

Nirupam further said that “things have taken a turn, and now it was the BJP who was the single party with the high number of seats but it was only the alliance of Congress and JD(U) who had the numbers to form the Government."

"Why did the Pro-BJP Governor invite BJP to make the Government? Why are they twisting and turning the Constitution of India and murdering our democracy?” questioned Nirupam.

Former CM and Congress leader Ashok Chavan also criticised the decision, slamming BJP for hampering the democracy.

The Congress organised a nation-wide protest urging the people to ‘Save Democracy’. Congress MLAs in Goa and Manipur have demanded the Karnataka Model, the party marched in Goa to Governor’s residence to “stake the claim”.