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With two independent MLAs pulling out of the Karnataka government and showing interest in joining the BJP to install a stable government, the strength of the coalition government has come down to 118 seats in the 224-member Assembly.

The ruling party in Karnataka claims that BJP is indulging in Operation Lotus with at least 13 MLAs, who are touted to be part of resort politics. The joke's on Rahul Gandhi for ridiculing PM Modi getting Philip Kotler award. All this and more on MyNation in 100 seconds

Two independent MLAs have announced their decision to withdraw support from the current coalition government in Karnataka. Congress and the JD(S) have termed it Operation Lotus. The BJP has distanced itself and has instead blamed the Congress and the JD(S) of poaching.

Few Congress MLAs were spotted in a Mumbai hotel. Karnataka Congress accuses BJP of indulging in Operation Lotus.

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If ‘resort politics’ being enacted from Bengaluru to Mumbai is making the Congress nervous in Karnataka, it is the low margin of victory in Madhya Pradesh and farmer unrest in Rajasthan that is giving Rahul Gandhi’s party sleepless nights. But how genuine is BJP’s ‘Operation Lotus’?
 

Karnataka chief minister says it's Operation Lotus, but says he has everything under control. BJP's BS Yeddyurappa hits back.

BJP president Amit Shah on Saturday said that BJP would make its lotus bloom for the fourth time straight in Chhattisgarh, while lauding Raman Singh government.