Parties get on with session, ignore Yeddyurappa
Opposition parties closed ranks with the Congress government in an unusual coming.
Belgaum: Opposition parties closed ranks with the Congress government in an unusual coming together at the special session in Belgaum on Tuesday, which left former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa who was intent on disrupting legislative business for the second day running, alone and friendless in the well of the Legislative Assembly.
The ruling Congress, at a Legislature Party meet on Tuesday, decided that the party would refuse to buckle under pressure from the KJP leader, who has carried his 24 day dharna in Bengaluru over Shaadi Bhagya scheme to the Legislative Assembly in Belgaum, and refused to countenance scrapping the protest despite repeated pleas from all the members of the House as well as Speaker, Kagodu Thimmappa that the House must not be disrupted.
When the House re-assembled in the morning, Mr Yeddyurappa was completely isolated. The legislators simply got down to business.
In a sign that he knew his protest was futile and that the sugarcane growers’ protest should have the attention of the House and the government, he said “I cannot simply withdraw my protest without getting any assurance on demands.”