New Delhi: Arun Jaitley has said that the “Congress Party complains a bit too much” in a facebook post intended to defend the formation of a government by the BJP despite the Congress being the single largest party.
“It accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of ‘stealing’ the mandate in Goa. It unsuccessfully petitioned before the Supreme Court. It attempted to raise issues in the Lok Sabha. What are the facts?” Jaitley posted on his page on the social media platform.
Jaitley’s rationale was that the Assembly Elections in Goa produced a hung Assembly and that “obviously” in a hung Assembly post-poll alliances will be formed.
“The BJP managed to form an alliance and presented to the Governor 21 out of 40 MLAs. They appeared before the Governor in person and submitted a letter of support. The Congress did not even submit a claim to the Governor. It had only the support of 17 MLAs,” the post said.
Jaitley claimed that in the face of these 21 MLAs led by Manohar Parrikar, the Governor could not have invited the minority of 17 MLAs to form the Government.
He cited several precedents to support the Governor’s decision including Jharkhand in 2005 (BJP won 30 out of 81 seats. The JMM leader Shibu Soren with a support of 17 MLAs of his party plus others formed the government), Jammu & Kashmir in 2002, (NC won 28 MLAs but the Governor invited the PDP and Congress with 15 + 21 MLAs) and Delhi in 2013 (BJP won 31 seats, but AAP with 28 MLAs + Congress support formed the Government).
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