Presidential rule in Maharashtra under pressure from PM Modi-Amit Shah: Digvijay Singh

Senior Congress
leader Digvijay Singh on Tuesday expressed apprehension that the BJP may
indulge in horse-trading to form government in Maharshtra after imposing the
President Rule there.

He expressed
the apprehension, alleging that the decision to impose the President Rule in
the state has been taken under duress from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and
Home Minister Amit Shah.

“Maharashtra
Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari had invited the third largest party, the
National Congress Party, for the government formation in the state. The time
limit for it was to end at 8.30 pm on Tuesday, but the governor made a
recommendation for imposing the President Rule even before the expiry of that
time limit,” Singh told reporters here. This cannot be termed as right in
democracy, he said.

“The
governor had adopted the right procedure in the beginning and invited
turn-by-turn BJP and Shiv Sena, which are the two largest parties, and had then
invited the NCP for government formation,” said Singh.

“But all
of a sudden, a recommendation for imposing the President Rule was made,”
he added.

“This
sudden decision indicates that it had been taken under the pressure of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah,” he said. “In the
garb of the President Rule, BJP may indulge in horse-trading,” he added.

“The BJP
has broken its promise to Shiv Sena and I have sympathy with the Sena,” he
said.