The JD(S) said on Monday it will file a PIL in the Karnataka High Court seeking a CBI probe into the resignation of Opposition MLAs allegedly engineered by the ruling BJP. "In a couple of days from now,we will move the court praying for a direction to CBI to investigate whether overtures were made to MLAs from the Opposition Congress and JD(S), party's state unit chief H D Kumaraswamy told reporters here. He said the CD in his possession containing the alleged conversation with JDS MLA Srinivas,offering him money to defect will also be submitted in court. On Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa's announcement to order a judicial probe into the conspiracy hatched to destabilise his government,Kumaraswamy demanded the inquiry also cover the "operation lotus" that the BJP launched soon after it came to power by making seven opposition MLAs quit to strengthen its presence in the Assembly. On his purported conversation with BJP MLA Appachu Ranjan from Kodagu district asking him to quit the saffron party,he said it could also be brought under the judicial probe purview. Kumaraswamy rejected BJP allegations that JDS had held the rebel MLAs,saying: "BJP leaders including Home Minister R Ashok and Tourism Minister G Janardhana Reddy went to Chennai and Goa to win back the rebels,but failed. Why are they accusing us now?" He said he was also prepared to face an inquiry into the BJP charge that JDS got funds from mining lobby to topple the state government. The chief minister should be blamed squarely for the "political anarchy" prevailing in the state,he alleged and said he would bring out more documentary evidence over the scams of the BJP government in the state shortly. Heads of religious muths were roped in by the BJP to influence Opposition party MLAs to switch sides,he claimed.
