State BJP president Rajeev Bindal addresses mediapersons in Shimla.
Shimla, February 29
Following the disqualification of the six Congress MLAs from the Legislative Assembly today, the BJP has got busy in chalking out its future course of action. State BJP president Rajeev Bindal today said that legal experts were examining the disqualification of the legislators. As per the sources in the BJP, the party is thinking whether to challenge the disqualification in the high court or the Supreme Court.
Even as the party is preparing to challenge the decision, Bindal claimed the BJP had not made any efforts to destabilise the Congress government. “The Congress regime is falling under its own weight, we have not done anything. A minister in Sukhu regime has hit out at his own government so what role does the BJP have in these developments,” he said.
He said that the Congress regime had lost the moral ground to continue in power as it was in minority. “The Sukhu regime which got a big majority has been reduced to 34 in the 69-member House, and as such has lost the right to continue,” Bindal said.
Leader of Opposition Jai Ram Thakur also claimed that the state government had lost the majority. “If voting on cut motion on health department had taken place on February 27, the Congress government would have fallen on the same day,” he said. He further said that the 15 BJP legislators were suspended from the House only to save the collapse of the government.
Thakur further said that the crisis the Congress was facing was of its own making. “We have been time and again saying there is resentment among Congress MLAs over the manner in which the government is functioning. They have been airing their grouse on public platform and inside the Assembly, but no solution has been offered,” he said.
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