Ahead of trust vote, Congress to hold legislative party meeting tomorrow

Days, after HD Kumaraswamy resigned as the Chief Minister of Karnataka, state BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa, was sworn in as the new Chief Minister on July 26. As he is about to prove the majority in the house, Congress will hold a legislative party meet to chart further course of action.

Bengaluru: The Congress will hold a legislative party meeting here on Monday, ahead of the confidence motion in the state Assembly.

Karnataka BJP president and the new Chief Minister of the state, BS Yeddyurappa had announced the tabling of a vote of confidence saying that his party will prove majority in the floor of the House.

The scheduled meeting will come after Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar on Sunday disqualified 14 rebel MLAs from Congress and JD(S) under the anti-defection law and barred them from contesting elections till the expiry of the term of the 15th Legislative Assembly.

The 11 rebel Congress legislators who were disqualified are Pratap Gowda Patil, BC Patil, Shivanand Hebbar, ST Somashekar, Shrimant Patil, BA Basavaraja, Anand Singh, R Roshan Baig, Muniratna, K Sudhakar and MTB Nagaraj.

The three MLAs disqualified are from JD(S) which include AH Vishwanath, Narayan Gowda and Gopalaiah.

Earlier this month, the rebel MLAs had pulled out from the Congress-JD(S) coalition, plunging the coalition government into a minority in the 225-member Assembly, which led to a political crisis in the state.

After days of high-drama and heated debates, the government fell on Tuesday as it lost the trust vote in the House. Following the defeat, Kumaraswamy submitted his resignation to Governor Vajubhai Vala at Raj Bhavan, along with his cabinet ministers.