By IANS,
Bangalore: The Congress and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) Saturday stepped up their attack on Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa for not cooperating with Lok Ayukta (Ombudsman) N. Santosh Hegde, who has resigned, in fighting corruption.
“Yeddyurappa has no moral right to continue in office after what Hegde said about his government,” JD-S state president and former chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy asserted Saturday.
Hegde, a retired Supreme Court judge, resigned Wednesday with a scathing attack on the Yeddyurappa government for “ignoring, over-ruling and being indifferent” to his suggestions to curb corruption in the state.
“This is a verdict against the government,” Kumaraswamy, who was chief minister for 20 months with Yeddyurappa as his deputy in the JD-S-BJP coalition government in the state in 2006-2007, told reporters here.
The Congress, the largest opposition party in the state with 74 members in the 225-member assembly, said it will move an adjournment motion on the Hegde issue when the assembly session begins Monday.
The party will move a resolution in the assembly seeking more powers for the Lok Ayukta, state Congress president R.V. Deshpande told reporters here.