Operation Kamala

<section begin="lead section" />“Operation Kamala” also known as "Operation Kamal" or "Operation Lotus" (hybrid word from the English Operation and the Kannada Kamala meaning "Lotus" an Election symbol of BJP.) was a term coined in 2008, when the BJP was three seats short of majority to form the government in Karnataka under B. S. Yeddyurappa. Former minister and minelord G. Janardhana Reddy worked out a method to circumvent the Anti-Defection Law and secured the support of legislators needed to take BJP past the majority mark. Opposition parties alleged that the BJP is now expanding Operation Kamala nationwide, while BJP continues to deny this allegation. but later on the members of the opposition join and BJP gets exposed. This trend has been going on across the country where mostly MLAs of the opposition are poached and purchased for money and ministerial berths.
Operation Kamala in Karnataka
In July 2019, several government members of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in India submitted their resignations to the speaker, which led to the fall of the then H. D. Kumaraswamy-led coalition government of Indian National Congress and .
Later those 15 MLAs who resigned were allowed by the Supreme Court of India to be considered eligible for re-election through Bye-Elections in 2019. After which 12 of the defected MLAs switched party to BJP and got re-elected to the assembly. 1got elected as an Independent candidate and later supported the BJP government and 2 of them lost elections to new candidates of INC.
Meanwhile the purpose to topple down the coalition government and set up lotus (BJP) into power in the state assembly was accomplished .Thus making the Operation Kamala successful.

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