Bangalore/New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Karnataka will Friday see the entire Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ministry staging a rally against Governor H.R. Bhardwaj for seeking its dismissal, even as the Congress, Left and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) intensified their demand for Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa's resignation.

 
 “I will tour the length and breadth of the state from Friday in an open jeep to mobilize people’s support if the governor does not agree to convene assembly session from June 2 by this (Thursday) evening,” Yeddyurappa told reporters in Bangalore.
 
 The state Congress unit mocked his threat, wondering: “What will he tell the people, that he is corrupt?”
 
 In New Delhi, the Left parties said Yeddyurappa and assembly Speaker K.G. Bopaiah should quit while the BJP can continue its government in Karnataka with a new leader and a new speaker.
 
 “We have no objection to that (BJP government continuing). But these two gentlemen (Yeddyurappa and Bopaiah) have no right to continue after the Supreme Court judgement,” Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary A.B. Bardhan told reporters in New Delhi after a meeting of Left and JD-S leaders.
 
 The apex court, while restoring the membership of 16 lawmakers May 13, had said the speaker had acted in a "great hurry" to disqualify them on an application filed by Yeddyurappa.
 
 Recommending the dismissal of the government, Bhardwaj had said that “the chief minister and the speaker had colluded to destroy the character and composition of the legislature” ahead of the trust vote Yeddyurappa was directed to take Oct 11 last year.
 
 In Bangalore, state's Law Minister S. Suresh Kumar told reporters that the chief minister will lead a rally at the Mahatma Gandhi statue in the heart of the city Friday against Bhardwaj’s dismissal recommendation and for his immediate recall.
 
 “Let the governor say ‘yes or no’ to convening the assembly. He has not responded to the cabinet decision,” Kumar said.
 
 Bhardwaj had Wednesday told Yeddyurappa that he was waiting for the central government's decision on his dismissal recommendation, expected "in a day or two", and only then he will act on the cabinet proposal to convene the assembly.
 
 In New Delhi, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni told reporters that the governor’s report was not discussed at the weekly cabinet meeting Thursday.
 
 The BJP and Congress Thursday held separate rallies in Bangalore over Bhardwaj’s recommendation.
 
 The Congress has also threatened to continue its agitation till the dismissal of the Yeddyurappa ministry.
 
 “It is no right to continue in view of the Supreme Court strictures against the chief minister and the speaker,” state Congress chief G. Parameshwara told reporters in Bangalore.