Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala on Wednesday invited BJP legislative party leader B.S. Yeddyurappa to form the new government and to take oath as Chief Minister on Thursday, a party spokesman said.

Afzalpur MLA MY Patil he would not leave the Congress, which has given him the opportunity to contest the election and win it, in any situation.

Either a party or a combine of parties which have majority in the Assembly should be given opportunity first to form the government. For no reasons, Manipur and Goa incidents should repeat in the state, said former Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde.

No MLA's belonging to Lingayat community elected from Congress would go to BJP, said senior Congress leader Shamanur Shivashankarappa.

JDS president HD Kumaraswamy has alleged that by saying that he would not allow JDS-Congress combine to form the government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been misusing the power.

As the dust is not yet settled on who is going to form the government, the Congress has planned to take all its 78 MLA's to a resort as part of its strategy to protect its MLA's from possible horse trading by the BJP.

With the election results throwing a fractured mandate in the state, the Congress has handed over a letter, having a party resolution and signatures of all MLA's to extend its support to JDS to form the government, to Governor Vajubhai Vala on Wednesday.

Congress leader Gulam Nabi Azad said that both KPCC president Dr G Parameshwar and JDS state president HD Kumaraswamy have submitted their letter seeking permission to form the government and they are waiting for the message of the Governor.