B Narayan Rao Excellent Speech In Assembly Floor Test BJP VS Congress-JDS Alo TV Kannada Karnataka Assembly Live Updates: Ahead of Karnataka trust vote, Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara arrived at Vidhana Soudha to check to camping BJP MLAs, who were spotted having breakfast in the House on Friday. "I came to enquire if they slept well, if they ate, if there were mosquitoes. Doctors and ambulance were also made available here. Suresh Kumar says breakfast is good. He's a good friend of mine. This is friendship beyond politics. That's the beauty of democracy. Inside we may fight. But once we are out, humanity is important," Parameshwara said.
Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy will have to prove his majority before 1.30 pm on Friday, governor Vajubhai Vala said in a letter a day earlier, hours after trust vote could not take place with the Speaker adjourning the proceedings in the Assembly.
As opposition BJP members started an overnight 'dharna' inside the House, Vala gave the time-line to Kumaraswamy, observing that resignation of 15 MLAs of the ruling JD(S) Congress and withdrawal of support by two independents "prima facie" indicated he has lost the confidence of the House. "Though a message as contemplated under article 175 (2) is sent to the Speaker, I'm informed that the House is adjourned today. Under these circumstances, I request you to prove your majority on the floor of the House on or before 1:30 PM tomorrow (Friday)," Vala said in a letter to Kumaraswamy.
As the day's developments had its moment of high drama and twists and turns both inside and outside the House, Kumaraswamy moved the motion of confidence in his wobbly 14-month old government that has been wracked by rebellion by a section of its MLAs threatening its survival for nearly two weeks.
The drama unfolded right from the word go as Kumaraswamy hit by the en masse resignation of 16 ruling coalition MLAs moved a one-line motion, saying the House expressed confidence in his ministry.
Twenty lawmakers did not turn up Thursday, including 17 from the ruling coalition, 12 of whom are holed up in a hotel in Mumbai, as the House debated the motion in a surcharged atmosphere.
The House that barely focussed on the debate on the motion witnessed three adjournments, acrimony and repeated disruptions by belligerent slogan shouting Congress members before the proceedings were wound up for the day.
Before it was adjourned, BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa declared his party members would stay put in the House itself overnight and even till the time the trust vote was decided. "We will stay until the trust vote is decided," Yeddyurappa said after the BJP, exasperated over the delay in taking up the voting, also rushed a delegation to Governor Vala to ask Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar to conclude the trust vote process by the end of the day itself.
Acting swiftly, Vala asked the Speaker to complete the process of vote of confidence moved by the end of the day. The treasury benches objected to the Governor's communication. BJP leaders said they were mulling moving the Supreme Court in the light of Thursday's developments.
As many as 16 MLAs -- 13 from Congress and three from JDS -- had resigned, while independent MLAs R Shankar and H Nagesh have withdrawn their support to the government, putting it on the edge. Congress member Ramalinga Reddy retracted, saying he would support the government.
The ruling combine's strength is 117-- Congress 78, JD(S) 37, BSP 1, and nominated 1, besides the Speaker. With the support of the two independents, the opposition BJP has 107 MLAs in the 225-member House, including the nominated MLA and Speaker.
If the resignations of 15 MLAs (12 from Congress, 3 from JDS) are accepted, the ruling coalition's tally will plummet to 101, (excluding the Speaker) reducing the government to a minority. This is the third motion on trust vote after the 2018 assembly polls yielded a fractured mandate with the BJP emerging as the single largest party with 104 seats but failing to mobilise numbers.
Yeddyurappa had resigned as CM after being in office for three days before facing the trust vote in May last year. Kumaraswamy who succeeded him had won the trust vote after forming the coalition government.
Adding to the worries of the ruling coalition, another Congress MLA Shreemant Patil was not seen in the House, in the midst of reports he has been admitted in a Mumbai hospital.
BSP MLA Mahesh, on whose support the coalition was counting, also did not show up, amid reports he was keeping away as he has not received any directions from the party leader Mayawati on the stand to be taken on the trust vote.
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