A day after over a dozen ruling Congress-JD(S) MLAs resigned in Karnataka, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad Sunday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the BJP had poached the party's MLAs in several states and questioned where had the 'vishwas' (trust) gone.
"Honourable prime minister says 'Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas and Sabka Vishwas'. This sounds good on television but it's not true on the ground," the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha told reporters when asked about the ongoing developments in the Southern state.
The Congress-JD(S) government has plunged into a crisis, with 13 MLAs of the alliance submitting their resignation to the Speaker, 12 of them on Saturday.
"I had said in the presence of the prime minister that in the last four years our government has been toppled in Himachal Pradesh. Decisions have been taken against us in Manipur and Goa.
"You have taken away our MLAs in West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and now it is happening in Karnataka. Where is ..