BJP Asks Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy TO Quit for Losing Majority Support In State Legislative assembly
KARNATAK BJP President B S Yeddyurappa on Sunday called for Chief Minister H D Kumarswamy’s resignation saying the JD-S –Congress Coalition Government has lost majority support in the state assembly, he told reporters in Bengaluru.”I demand that the Chief Minister, if he is honest and cares for the democratic system, he should immediately resign or should move a motion seeking for trust vote on Monday itself,” Yeddyurappa said. Sixteen MLAs of JD(S) and Congress have resigned, and also two independents have withdrawn support to the government, and extended it to the BJP. “You (Kumaraswamy) don’t have majority. So let them (coalition) ask for confidence vote or reign immediately. Tomorrow in the Business Advisory Committee meeting I will advise same thing to Kumaraswamy and discuss,” he added. Kumaraswamy had on Friday announced in the state Assembly that he had voluntarily decided to seek a trust vote to end the “confusion” caused by resignations of rebel MLAs and requested the Speaker to fix time for the same. Yeddyurappa’s statement came, even as efforts by coalition leaders to mollify rebel Congress MLA M T B Nagaraj seemed to have failed as he has flown to Mumbai on Sunday to join other rebel lawmakers. Leaders of the Congress-JD(S) coalition had held negotiations with Nagaraj on Saturday in a bid to woo him back to save the H D Kumaraswamy-led government that is on the brink of collapse. Recalling that the Chief Minister has said that without the support of MLAs, he will not continue and will seek a trust vote, Yeddyurappa said, despite all their efforts Congress rebel MLAs M T B Nagaraj and K Sudhakar have said they will not withdraw their resignations and have gone (to Mumbai). He also stated that 15 MLAs have approached the Supreme Court and the court may also come to a decision on Tuesday. Five rebel Congress MLAs had moved the Supreme Court on Saturday against the Assembly Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar for not accepting their resignations. MLAs Anand Singh, K Sudhakar, N Nagaraj (MTB), Munirathna and Roshan Baig have sought impleadment in pending plea submitted by the 10 other rebel MLAs .
