In yet another setback to Congress in Karnataka, one more MLA on Sunday said he has decided to resign from his Assembly membership, the third legislator to leave the party which accused ruling BJP of poaching to shore up its numbers.
Malikayya Guttedar, representing Afzalpur, told PTI that he was “unhappy about the affairs of the Congress and the party has sidelined him”.
Mr Guttedar said he would meet Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President R V Deshpande tomorrow to inform him about his decision to quit.
Two Congress MLAs had resigned last week causing embarrassment to the party at a time when the BJP government was facing a crisis and had faced floor tests twice after 16 MLAs, including five independents, withdrew support to the first ever BJP government in the south.
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Advani draws US attention on Pak threat
AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi
Oct. 24: With just about a fortnight remaining for US President Barack Obama’s India visit, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani has blogged in what seems a concerted attempt to draw Washington’s attention yet again to the role neighbouring Pakistan has been playing in carrying out terror attacks against India.
Mr Advani in his latest blog posting has sought to draw Washington’s attention to the covert war that India’s neighbour has been carrying out by quoting from the latest work of noted journalist Bob Woodword of “Watergate” fame as also a report prepared by the former CIA analyst Bruce O.Riedel.
This report (prepared by a US’s senior National Security Council officer on Afghanistan war), according to Woodward, “Identified Pakistan as a much more strategically troubling problem than Afghanistan, because the sanctuaries there for Al Qaeda and other affiliate groups were more of a threat to the United States,” Mr L.K. Advani has written in his blog quoting from Mr Woodward’s book.