Daijiworld Media Network – Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Jan 17: BJP state president and former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa has alleged that chief minister HD Kumaraswamy has been indulging in horse-trading by offering money and ministerial posts to his MLAs.
"We are not into any poaching. It is CM Kumaraswamy who is indulging in horse-trading. He himself is offering money and ministerial posts to our MLAs," Yeddyurappa said here on Thursday, January 17.
BJP MLAs from Karnataka who have camped themselves in Gurugram since Monday evening said that they were here to make strategies for the coming Lok Sabha polls and had not run away fearing poaching by the ruling Congress-JD(S) alliance.
Yeddyurappa - File photo
The charges of horse-trading were triggered after three Karnataka Congress MLAs visited Mumbai earlier on Monday, reportedly along with some BJP MLAs. This was followed by the Congress' allegation that the BJP was trying to poach the ruling party's MLAs to destabilize the JD(S)-Congress coalition government. .
Yeddyurappa has refuted these charges, saying that his party had nothing to do with the three Congress MLAs' Mumbai visit, and accused the Congress-JD(S) alliance of making a poaching bid.
Meanwhile Kumaraswamy has also accused Yeddyurappa of fabricating stories, adding that there was no need for the Congress-JD(S) alliance to poach on any party's MLAs.