A BJP delegation led by senior leader L K Advani on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and demanded that Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj be recalled immediately for “being partisan and converting the Raj Bhawan into an epicentre of horse-trading.”
“We seek the recall of Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj. The developments of the last few weeks have clearly demonstrated that notwithstanding his appointment to a constitutional office of a Governor, Mr Bhardwaj has utterly failed to politically detach himself from his political past,” BJP said in a memorandum submitted to the Prime Minister.
Mr Advani was accompanied by Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, her counterpart in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley and senior party leader M Venkaiah Naidu. Home Minister P Chidambaram was present during the meeting.
“Extra-constitutionalism was his (governor’s) firm belief and the use of extra constitutionalism to demonstrate loyalty was always his political strategy,” Mr Jaitley said later during an interaction with the media. “Remaining politically impartial is not in his (Mr Bhardwaj’s) nature,” he added.
BJP had earlier called Mr Bhardwaj an “agent of the Congress” and demanded that the Centre recall him immediately.
“In recent weeks he (Bhardwaj) converted the Raj Bhawan in Bengaluru into the epicentre of political conspiracy to encourage horse-trading and destabilise the state government,” Mr Jaitley said.
He said though the first trust vote was “conclusive”, the party agreed for a second trust vote as suggested by the Governor because it wanted to “avoid a constitutional confrontation rather than precipitate one.”
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