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CM Kumaraswamy seeks trust vote: Will it be huge setback for Karnataka rebel MLAs?

Soon after the Supreme Court ordered to maintain status quo with regard to the resignations of 16 MLAs in Karnataka, chief minister Kumaraswamy, in the state Assembly, said he is ready for floor test

The Supreme Court has ordered a status quo in relation to the case it was hearing on the Karnataka rebel MLAs’ resignation issue. This means the Speaker can neither accept the resignations nor disqualify the disgruntled elements

Karnataka’s rebel MLAs, who were in Mumbai, reached Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru in a chartered flight under police protection at 6pm and ran to meet the Assembly Speaker, a sight worth watching.

As resignations of Karnataka rebel MLAs is being heard in the Supreme Court, the state Assembly session began on Friday (July 12) amidst the political crisis
 

West Bengal chief minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee gave pep-talk to her party MLAs asking them to apologise for mistakes made in the past

The counsel of Anil Chacko Joseph, the Youth Congress leader, told the Supreme Court bench that the resignations by the rebel MLAs were nothing but a kind of defection and sought a hearing as an intervenor.

Of the 10 MLAs who quit the Congress to join the BJP, three will be inducted into the Goa Cabinet. Three ministers from Goa Forward Party and an independent candidate will be dropped from the Cabinet.
 

While the JD(S)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka is teetering after resignations of several MLAs, two- thirds of Congress MLAs have joined the BJP in Goa. In Madhya Pradesh, the Nath-led Congress government is holding onto a wafer-thin majority.

Both parties have attempted to clarify that the meeting of Karnataka minister and JD(S) leader SR Mahesh and BJP leaders at Kumara Krupa Guest House in Bengaluru was just a coincidence

The MLAs have returned to the Renaissance hotel in suburban Powai and they would be staying there for another two days,  a local BJP leader said.
 

The rebel Congress MLAs returned to Bengaluru from Mumbai following Supreme Court's order. But no decision on their resignations yet. Watch the latest headlines of the day on MyNation in 100 seconds

Following the Supreme Court order, Karnataka's rebel MLAs on Thursday (July 11) came down to Bengaluru from Mumbai to submit fresh resignation letters to Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar in Vidhana Soudha. The Speaker sought time to verify them, which may take a week or even a month.

Pramod Sawant arrived in the national capital with the 10 MLAs and has been meeting senior BJP leaders, including its working president J P Nadda.

The Congress-JD(S) government in Karnataka is in crisis following a spate of resignations of MLAs from the coalition