BJP opposes 'move' to nominate Congress functionaries to Council

BANGALORE: Karnataka BJP today asked Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to advise the state Governor to reject Congress Government's reported recommendation to nominate five party functionaries to the Legislative Council, saying it went against a constitutional mandatory provision.

The government's reported move to nominate active Congress functionaries disregards the Constitutional mandatory provision that persons from the field of arts, science literature or eminent persons of civil society should be nominated, state BJP President Prahlad Joshi said.

"It is shocking to know that the state government is denying eminent personalities an opportunity to serve the people and represent the voice of the field in they have made niche for themselves," Joshi said in his letter to Singh.

Nominating active Congressmen who had lost the election or were denied ticket to contest the polls defeats the very purpose of "noble intention" of providing representation in the upper house to eminent personalities, he said.

He asked Singh to advise the state government to adhere to the Constitutional provisions and nominate only those persons in the field of arts, literature or others.