Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Jul 15: The Congress legislators who have resigned from their posts have, in an attempt to pacify the voters of their respective constituencies, have explained their reasons for the decision to resign through a common letter.

They have given 12 reasons for their resignations, in the joint plea made to the voters in an attempt to earn their sympathy.

The gist of the letter is as follows:

1. The impasse created in the coalition government, which began with a woman legislator from Belagavi district has worsened and led to this situation.

2. No leader tried to solve the problem in Belagavi district. Neither the chairman of the coordination committee, nor the president of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, nor the general secretary of All India Congress Committee or the party's state in-charge made a serious attempt to handle the issue. The problem has grown into a grave situation that threatens to topple the government now.

3. Because of the intervention of an influential minister in Belagavi district level politics, leaders of the district were frustrated.

4. Although we have placed our problems about the functioning style of the coalition government since a year before the chairman of the coordination committee, deputy chief minister, party's Karnataka affairs in-charge, K C Venugopal and other national level leaders, none of them responded to the issues.

5. Our letters did not get any value either in the office of the chief minister or the deputy chief minister.

6. During the last one year during which we worked as legislators, we had to introduce ourselves every single time. This situation arose because inexperienced officials from their own communities were posted in strategic posts. Our pleas therefore went unheard.

7. Because of the selfish interests of H D Revanna and also an influential minister from our party, they exceeded all norms of interference in all departments, giving rise to bottlenecks in their functioning.

8. Since the last one year, neither the chairman of the coordination committee, deputy chief minister, or D K Shivakumar, who has been taking a lead in various issues, called the legislators during the last one year for discussing development of their constituencies or other issues, not even for courtesy sake.

9. Although we brought to the notice of the chief minister about multifarious problems faced by our constituencies, no genuine effort was made to solve them.

10. When we brought these problems to the notice of the deputy chief minister a number of times, he expressed helplessness.

11. Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president behaved like district president of the party and did not lend an ear to our grievances.

12. The formation of coalition government caused more loss to the Congress party than advantages. In this background, with heavy heart, after considering all the pros and cons and in the interests of the voters of our constituencies and for the development of our constituencies, all the legislators sharing common views came together, discussed the issues threadbare, and arrived at a consensus to resign from our posts as legislators as there was no other alternative, with grief.