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Late on Saturday (July 13) night, Karnataka rebel MLA MTB Nagaraj announced that he would withdraw his resignation and remain in the Congress, albeit with a condition that was expressed later

Hoskote Congress MLA MTB Nagaraj announced that he would withdraw his resignation on Sunday (July 13). But within moments, did a volte-face as he said his resignation would depend on the resignation choice of Sudhakar, his close friend and Congress MLA from Chikkaballapur, Karnataka.
 

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Karnataka BJP president BS Yeddyurappa has urged chief minister HD Kumaraswamy to move the vote of confidence motion on Monday (July 15) itself

 

Daughter of BTM Layout (Bengaluru) Congress MLA Ramalinga Reddy, Sowmya Reddy (Congress MLA from Jayanagar, Bengaluru) has said she didn’t go to resorts because she was voted to do work sincerely and not for anything else

Ramalinga Reddy, BTM Layout (Bengaluru) Congress MLA, who resigned earlier, refused to speak about politics with the media

Karnataka BJP president Yeddyurappa has reiterated that chief minister Kumaraswamy should resign, saying he has no sufficient MLAs to run the Congress-JDS coalition government in the state

 

Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy announced to seek the trust vote on the floor of the house. Immediately, all the party MLAs shifted to respective resorts on the outskirts of Bengaluru. What if Kumaraswamy decides to introduce a new bhagya (scheme) to tackle this?
 

Senior Congress leaders have made a beeline to the residence of Nagaraj, Karnataka Congress MLA from Hoskote and minister for housing in the Kumaraswamy government in order to pacify him to take back his resignation. Sources now say that with the intervention of former CM Siddaramaiah, he is willing to rethink on the issue.

As chief minister Kumaraswamy announced that he would take up the vote of confidence, hectic bargaining is going on with a view to bringing back disgruntled elements

Representing the ‘SBM’ gang, MLAs ST Somashekhar, Byrathi Basavaraj, Munirathna Naidu and Gopalaiah, RR Nagar MLA Munirathna Naidu held HD Revanna responsible for the Karnataka political turmoil as he interfered in signature projects of Bengaluru city
 

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Karnataka chief minister Kumaraswamy has sought July 17 as the date to prove his majority on the floor of the Karnataka Assembly

Sources say that the JDS is in touch with four BJP MLAs, in an obvious bid of reverse operation. The BJP has asked all its MLAs to shift to a resort immediately

The ‘unscheduled’ and ‘unplanned’ meeting between Karnataka tourism minister Sa Ra Mahesh and BJP national general secretary Muralidhar Rao has apparently left top leaders unhappy. While Amit Shah gave a dressing down to Rao, Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy pulled up Mahesh