Bengaluru, Nov. 27 -- Former chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Wednesday said the state BJP unit would act according to instructions from national party leadership if the state Congress government, which he said had brought instability upon itself, were to fall.

He added that if the party high command decided there should be no mid-term elections, the BJP would attempt to form a government.

"If the government in the state falls due to the self-inflicted crime of the Congress, we will implement the orders given by our national leadership," he said. Describing the party as a "sinking ship", Gowda noted that the party governed only three states in the country, out of which two were small.

Meanwhile, leader of opposition in the assembly...