Modi should order probe into BJP’S horsetrading bid, demands Congress

NEWDELHI: The Congress on Sunday demanded that Prime Minster Narendra Modi should order a probe into alleged efforts made by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders to bribe and induce Congress and JD(S) MLAS ahead of the Karnataka trust vote.

“The PM should prove his commitment to fighting corruption by launching an investigation into those MLAS who openly called Congress and JD(S) MLAS and offered bribes with an intention to break the rock solid coalition of the Congress and the JD(S),” Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill said.

BJP’S BS Yeddyurappa resigned from the post of chief minister without facing a Supreme Court-mandated trust vote on Saturday.

Shergill said the Congress would work with its partners, as had been declared earlier by party president Rahul Gandhi, to stitch a coalition to make the “central government free from BJP” and free from hate politics.

“The truth is in 2014, a slogan in India was ‘ghar ghar Modi’. In 2019, the Congress will ensure it is ‘bye bye Modi’. Today, we are making friends and NDA is making enemies,” he said.

The BJP, however, refuted the Congress’s charge of horse trading.

“The Congress is talking about horse trading when it has looted the entire stable. They are celebrating even after losing elections. Their sitting chief minister was unseated. The Congress is using diversionary tactics to deflect attention from its defeat,” said Anil Baluni, Rajya Sabha parliamentarian and head of the BJP media cell.