BANGALORE Feb 4: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party member and Basavanagudi MLA, H N Nanje Gowda on Tuesday called for the need for an amendment to the Constitution to prevent mid-term elections to the Lok Sabha.`No citizen wants this election, and the present elections have turned out to be a nuisance value for the people'', he told mediamen on the occasion of the release of party's audio and video casette.
He desired that the Prime Minister should be elected by the Lok Sabha by single transferable votes. There should be a nation-wide discussion before there was any effort to amend the Constitution, he added.
Commenting on the current political situation, Gowda said that the political parties had become directionless, and resorted to forge unholy alliances. Unholy alliances were a result of the longing among parties to prevent a hung Parliament and thereby mid-term polls.
Nanje Gowda said the BJP if voted to power at the Centre, would frame National Water Policy guidelines and resolve all the river waterdisputes in the Country. Reacting to Congress Rajya Sabha member Rehman Khan's comments that the BJP's secular policy was an election strategy, BJP spokesman S Suresh Kumar said members of the minority community had remained backward due to the `so called secular policy' adopted by the Congress all through the last 45 years.
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