Winning On Points
Outlook|August 12, 2019

BJP scrapes through and Congress­ JD(S) limp on— all hostage to Karnataka’s political malignancy

Ajay Sukumaran
Winning On Points

IT took a whole month for Karnat­aka’s protracted power struggle to uncoil. In the final act, Chief Min­ister B.S. Yediyurappa needed only a voice vote to prove majority—the new BJP regime staved off an impending shutdown bypassing, just in time, the Appropriation Bill required to draw funds for government expenditure. So far, so good. But Karna­taka’s troubles with its shaky politics aren’t over yet.

First, there’s still the controversial question of the disqualified legislators. Former Speaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar has disqualified 17 MLAs—13 from the Congress, three from Janata Dal (Secular) and the lone legislator of the regional outfit Karnataka Prajnavantha Janata Party—but it looks like a legal battle will follow. Ramesh Kumar quit as Speaker on July 29 soon after Yediyurappa’s floor test and, in doing so, made a fervent appeal for a clean-up of the political system. “Unless electoral reforms happen, our attempts to tackle corruption will only be perfunctory,” he told the House, adding that the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, the anti-defection law, “needs a total re-look”. Kumar then turned to legislation that were within the assembly’s ambit, such as the Lokayukta Act, seeking clarity on the penal provision for legislators who refused to declare their assets and liabilities within the stipulated time. “If that isn’t spelt out, why have the law?” he pointed out.

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