India's Darkest day - Shame

Today is the darkest day for India’s democracy. Who could have even dreamt that one day he would watch, live, currency notes being flashed on the floor of the house in Parliament as proof of bribes having been paid by the ruling alliance to three MPs to abstain from voting in the confidence motion later today. This is exactly what happened at about 4 PM when three MPs of the main opposition party, the BJP, produced three bundles of Rs1 crore each. This, according to them, was the advance paid to them as part of the bribes that they were offered by/on behalf of Amar Singh of the Samajwadi Party.

Farmers were committing suicide because they couldn't earn thousand rupees. But here....

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Yediyurappa may take oath as Karnataka chief minister Wednesday

The Bharatiya Janata Party ministry led by B.S. Yediyurappa is likely to be sworn in Wednesday, party sources said Sunday.

The election process has to be completed by Wednesday May 28 according to the schedule drawn up by the election commission.

Yediyurappa will be formally elected leader of the BJP legislature party Monday. He and other state leaders will leave for Delhi for talks with party central leaders after staking claim to form the government.

All top BJP leaders like L.K. Advani, Sushma Swaraj, and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi who had campaigned vigorously and Arun Jaitely, in charge of party affairs in Karnataka and many others are likely to witness the swearing in ceremony.

In November last year when Yediyurappa was sworn in as chief minister all these leaders as well as chief ministers of other BJP-ruled states were present.

On Sunday evening state leaders met at Yediyurappa’s residence to discuss ministry formation and steps to be taken for stability of the government as it will have only a slender majority of four or five seats in the 225-member (including one nominated member) house.

BJP has won 110 seats, Congress 80, JD-S 28 and the remaining six have been taken by independent candidates.

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The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) is inching towards becoming the single largest party in Karnataka. BJP is closely followed by the Congress. JD(S)-touted as the kingmaker party-is trailing.

According to the latest results/reports, the BJP has won 4 seats and is leading in 102. The Congress has won 1 seat and is ahead in 68 seats and the JD(S) in 41. According to the early election results tends, the BJP is ahead of the Congress in Central Karnataka, coastal Karnataka and Bangalore.

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