The Opposition BJP has petitioned Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot’s office against what it calls “misuse” of taxpayers’ money to fund advertisements about the protest being staged in Delhi on Wednesday against the Centre by the Congress government in Karnataka.
A delegation of the BJP leaders including State General Secretary P. Rajiv, which submitted the petition to the Governor’s office in his absence, also alleged that there is a “breakdown of federal structure” with the Congress government trying to “provoke people against the Centre.”
Party’s protest
Pointing out that the advertisement has been issued about the protest being staged against the Centre, the BJP in the petition maintained that it was actually a Congress protest rather than the State government’s protest. It was illegal to use the taxpayers’ money for issuing such advertisements which are against the Centre and which have political motivations, it contended. It alleged that it was a “political advertisement in the name of the government in violation of ethics and law.”
Stating that there was no provision in the Constitution to use public funds to incite people against the Centre, the BJP’s petition said the Chief Minister was behaving like a Congress functionary rather than a Chief Minister.
BJP’s counter protest
Meanwhile, the BJP is staging a counter protest in Bengaluru on Wednesday against the Congress government’s protest in Delhi against the Centre. BJP State president B.Y. Vijayendra, Leaders of the Opposition in both the legislature Houses R. Ashok and Kota Srinivas Poojary will participate in the protest being staged in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue on the Vidhana Soudha premises.
