Bangalore: Bharatiya Janata Party's chief ministerial candidate BS Yeddyurappa on Sunday night said they would give a secular government in Karnataka and he would be inducting a senior Muslim leader into the government.
The BJP veteran, who is likely to be sworn in on May 28, said he would stake claim to form the government with the Governor Rameshwar Thakur on Monday after the legislature party elects the leader.
He denied suggestions that his government would include "money bags" who have won in the elections in places like Bellary saying the government would be based on the policies of the party.
It would implement the promises made in the election manifesto, said.
Incidentally, the party had not fielded a single Muslim candidate for the Assembly elections.
But while campaigning Yeddyurappa had said that the party would induct a Muslim into its ministry if elected to power.
“We did not have any Muslim leader whose victory we could assure. Hence we could not give ticket to any Muslim candidate. But we will have a Muslim leader elected to the legislative council and induct him into the ministry,” Yeddyurappa had said in Bangalore on May 7.
In the elections, the BJP won 110 seats in the 224-seat Karnataka Assembly. The Congress won 80 seats; the Janata Dal (Secular) 28 seats and others won six seats.
The election process has to be completed by May 28 according to the schedule drawn up by the Election Commission.
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