Old RSS hand Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala’s decision of swearing in BJP’s BS Yeddyurappa as chief minister as the head of the single largest party prompted Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar to start a “Me Too” campaign of their own.

Hours after Yeddyurappa was sworn in, the Congress units in Goa, Manipur, and Meghalaya and, in Bihar, RJD leader Tejasvi Yadav – former deputy chief minister and son of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad – said they would meet the Governors of these states and ask for being invited to form government on the same grounds as applied in Karnataka.

The move, as intended, appeared to have caused acute embarrassment to the BJP and there were no reports of any comments from its camp on this development.

The Congress announced it will be meeting Goa governor Mridula Sinha to ask her to invite the party to stake claim to the government. RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav also asked the Bihar governor Satya Pal Malik to dissolve the assembly and invite his party to form a government in the state.

In the elections to Goa’s assembly election in 2017, Congress emerged as the single-largest party with 21 seats in the 40-seat assembly, but it was the BJP that formed a post-poll alliance that ended up forming the government.

In Bihar, the RJD was the single-largest party with 80 seats in the 243-seat assembly in the 2015 assembly election, but it ended up in the opposition – although it happened after ally Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) ditched RJD-Congress to go with BJP.

According to ANI reports, Congress’s Goa in-charge Chella Kumar said he along with more leaders will meet the governor of Goa and ask him to invite his party to form the government. The party is also planning to parade its 17 MLAs at the governor house, said media reports quoting sources.

Soon after, in an apparent show of unity against the events unfolding in Karnataka, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav followed suit, asking governor Satya Pal Malik to dissolve the Bihar assembly and invite RJD on account of it being the single-largest party in the state. Yadav said that he will be meeting the Bihar governor at 1 PM tomorrow, Friday, may 18.

“How will BJP prove majority? Amit Shah has only one formula, horse-trading or sending agencies like CBI and ED behind MLAs of other parties. It’s dictatorship by BJP,” he said addressing a press conference.

Yadav said that if not opposed then BJP may try to repeat the Karnataka and Bihar episode in the upcoming polls in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan as well. “If we aren’t united today then it was Bihar yesterday, Karnataka today, can be MP or Rajasthan tomorrow,” he added.

In Goa, Congress Legislature Party chief Chandrakant Kavlekar said the party will stake claim tomorrow by submitting to Governor Mridula Sinha a formal letter containing signatures of all the 16 party MLAs. Kavlekar said the Goa governor should follow the precedent set by her Karnataka counterpart and invite the single largest party to form the government “correcting her mistake of March 12, 2017”.

“We have 16 legislators with us and with that strength we are the single largest party in the (Goa) Assembly. The governor should invite us to form the government in Goa as per the precedent set by her Karnataka counterpart, said Kavlekar, the Leader of Opposition in the Goa Assembly.

When pointed out that the Congress needs support of at least 21 legislators to stake the claim, he said that once the governor swears in the Congress chief minister, he will be able to prove his majority on the floor of the House.

“The numbers will have to be proven on the floor of the House and we have that with us,” he said.

Meghalaya Congress is also staking claim to forming the government by stating that they are the single largest party in the state. Similar move is planned in Manipur, said media reports.

Meanwhile, Tejasvi Yadav also announced a protest dharna against the Karnataka Governor’s decision. “We would be holding a one-day dharna tomorrow against the murder of democracy in Karnataka. We also request the Bihar governor to dissolve the state government and like in Karnataka invite the single largest party, which in Bihar is the RJD,” said Tejashwi Yadav.

The Congress, too, plans nationwide protests. ANI reported that All India Congress Committee General Secretary Ashok Gehlot issued letter requesting all Pradesh Congress Committees, leaders and workers to organise state-wide dharnas at state capitals and district headquarters tomorrow to protest against Karnataka Governor for inviting BS Yedurappa for making government in Karnataka.

Back in Karnataka which prompted these moves, Congress and JD(S) had collected their MLAs at Eagleton Resort to keep their flock together.

In a clear attempt to hit them, Yeddyurappa ordered Eagleton Resort’s police cover to be withdrawn.

The Congress was considering moving its MLAs to either Punjab or Kerala, said media reports. At the same time, Congress-JD(S) found new supporters as Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu reached out to JD (S) supremo HD Deve Gowda and offered shelter to Congress, JD (S) MLAs in Vishakhapatnam or Vijayawada.