The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on May 11, 2016

THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) welcomes the judicial verdict on the floor test held in the Uttarkhand assembly, upholding the constitution and the Bommai judgement that lays down that the majority has to be proved on the floor of the assembly and Article 356 should be used only as a last resort.

This is a big setback to the anti-constitutional conspiracy hatched by the BJP of trying to topple the government in the state and impose its rule there. The BJP should learn that its resort to such methods at subterfuge to remove democratically elected state governments headed by opposition parties will not succeed.