BJP's assessment of JD(S) was wrong: Venkaiah Naidu

POWERLESS IN KARNATAKA: BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu says JD(S) would pay for breaking trust.

        

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Karan Thapar: But it hasn’t facilitated him. He was laughing at the resignations.

Venkaiah Naidu: Heavens are not going to fall in another two days. He will be further exposed if he breaches the promise.

Karan Thapar: Heavens may not fall but the impression you are giving to the country that you are hoping against your hope. You are hoping against reality that a miracle will make Yediyurappa chief minister. Do you really believe that will happen?

Venkaiah Naidu: Tomorrow or day after or in near future it is Yediyurappa who will be the chief minister of Karnataka, you take it from me. Future chief minister of Karnataka will be Yediyurappa.

Karan Thapar: That sounds like brave words. You have already waited three days, how long you are going to wait. You are going to wait a week, a month.

Venkaiah Naidu: We have our parliamentary board meeting tomorrow; we will take further decision about the next step tomorrow itself.

Karan Thapar: I put it to you, you have chickened out that final decision. You are desperate to make B S Yediyurappa chief minister and in the process you are humiliating the party. That’s the problem.

Venkaiah Naidu: No humiliation at all. After all it was a solemn assurance to the people given by both the parties. We want them to honour it.

Karan Thapar: Why don’t you now act with dignity, why don’t you act with self-respect and walk out?

Venkaiah Naidu: The way with the dignity, with the decorum and with the decency we are functioning, the entire state and the country is watching and we are not abusing or we are not misusing. We have performed our responsibility we are not asking any favour.

Karan Thapar: You are not abusing, you are not misusing. The problem is you are being abused, you are being misused and you are not reacting. Let me tell you, you have been taken for a ride and what’s happened–you haven’t acted with respect or decency instead you swallowed your pride and you are letting small party trample over you.

Venkaiah Naidu: People of Karnataka wanted a good government. We have given good governance. They want this alliance to continue. If he betrays, if anybody goes back then they will be facing the people and people’s wrath.

Karan Thapar: I put it to you today, you are losing self-respect. The impression you are giving that people of Karnataka is so desperate to have a BJP chief minister; your izzat has been forgotten your self-respect has been forgotten.