The fast-paced developments in Karnataka have stirred the political pot in Bihar, where Opposition RJD today sought an appointment with Governor Satyapal Malik for tomorrow to request it be invited to form the government in the state as the single-largest party, by dismissing the JD(U)-BJP dispensation led by Nitish Kumar.
While RJD ally Congress said it would join them to the Raj Bhawan, ruling JD(U) and the BJP have slammed the move.
A day after B S Yeddyurappa of the BJP, which emerged as the single-largest party in Karnataka but did not have a simple majority, was invited by Governor Vajubhai Vala to form the government, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said the Bihar Governor should follow the same principle and invite his party to form the government.
Tejashwi said he wished to submit to the Governor that there cannot be double standards. "If a single largest party has to be allowed to form a government in a hung assembly (in Karnataka), then the Nitish Kumar government must be dismissed and the RJD invited to prove its majority on the floor of the House," he told reporters here.
Tejaswi, who is son of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, was interacting with mediapersons shortly after he put out a tweet saying, "I will meet Honourable Governor of Bihar along with MLAs as we are single largest party of Bihar."
"B S Yeddyurappa should step down and the BJP should withdraw its claim to make way for the Congress-JD(S) combine."
Bihar Congress Working President Kaukab Qadri told PTI, "There is logic in what Tejashwi is saying...we will go with the RJD to Raj Bhawan."
Tejashwi held the press conference at his 5 Deshratna Marg house and not at 10 the Circular Road bunglow alloted to his mother Rabri Devi, where he generally addresses media, and where his father Lalu Prasad is staying after
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