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Tussle for Karnataka Sees JDS-Congress Emerge Champions After BS Yeddyurappa Quits Before Floor Test
Sunday, May 20, 2018 IST
Tussle for Karnataka Sees JDS-Congress Emerge Champions After BS Yeddyurappa Quits Before Floor Test

Capping five days of riveting political and court-room drama, Yeddyurappa announced his decision to quit on the floor of the Assembly after a brief emotional speech rather than face a vote of confidence he was widely expected to lose.

 
 

Bengaluru: BS Yeddyurappa resigned as the chief minister of Karnataka on Saturday, just two days after he was sworn-in. The BJP leader quit just minutes before he was to face a floor test to prove his majority in the Vidhan Soudha.
 
Governor Valubhai Vala then called upon JD(S)' HD Kumaraswamy to form the government in alliance with the Congress party. The son of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, Kumaraswamy will be sworn-in on Wednesday after he deferred his swearing in as Monday was Rajiv Gandhi's death anniversary.
 
Capping five days of riveting political and court-room drama, Yeddyurappa announced his decision to quit on the floor of the Assembly after a brief emotional speech rather than face a vote of confidence he was widely expected to lose.
 
"I will not face confidence vote.... I am going to resign," he told the Assembly at the end of a brief emotional speech, bringing the curtains down on his short-lived tenure.
 
The 75-year-old Lingayat strongman then headed straight to the Raj Bhavan where he handed over his resignation to Governor. This came a day after he was ordered by the Supreme Court to face a floor test at 4 pm on Saturday after it drastically reduced the 15-day deadline set by the governor for him to prove his majority.
 
Yeddyurappa's previous two chief ministerial stints lasted seven days and three years.
 
Three hours later, Kumaraswamy, drove to the Raj Bhavan for a meeting with the Governor. The 58-year-old announced that the JD(S)-Congress combine has been invited by the Governor to form the new government and that the swearing-in ceremony will take place on May 21. The date was later changed to May 23, after the Congress told the JD(S) chief that the day was Rajiv Gandhi's death anniversary.
 
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Kumaraswamy, who became the chief minister for the first time in 2006 at the head of a JD(S)-BJP coalition, said the Governor has given him 15 days to prove the majority, "but we will do it much before".
 
He also thanked the Supreme Court for the "right directions".
 
Though claiming he was "100 percent" sure about winning the trust vote but as the D-day loomed Yeddyurappa failed to muster support of 7 additional MLAs required to ensure the survival of his government. The BJP with 104 MLAs had emerged as the single largest party but fell short of a majority.
 
He was the lone person to be sworn in on Thursday just hours after the apex court refused to stay the ceremony during a dramatic midnight hearing on a petition moved by the Congress against the governor's invitation to the BJP.
 
After the resignation, union minister Prakash Javadekar said the party knows how to "respect democracy" while the Congress, the AAP and other opposition parties said the saffron party's attempt to "subvert democracy" failed miserably.
 
The Congress, which finished second with 78 seats, moved swiftly and stitched an alliance with the 37-member JD(S), and even backed its leader HD Kumaraswamy for chief ministership, with accusations of bribery and poaching flying thick and fast. The newly formed alliance has claimed support of 117 MLAs in the 224-member House with an effective strength of 221.
 
Buoyed by the turn of events in Karnataka, Congress president Rahul Gandhi hailed the unity shown by the Congress-JD(S) combine and said the opposition parties will work together to defeat the BJP.
 
At a news conference in Delhi, Gandhi launched a strong attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of authorising buying off MLAs and disrespecting institutions. Gandhi also said while Modi talks of fighting corruption, "he is corruption".
 
Gandhi also said he hoped that the BJP and the RSS would "learn lessons" from the political developments in the southern state.
 

 
 

The Congress, the CPI-M and the NCP also demanded the resignation of the Governor.
 
Yeddyurappa accused the Congress-JDS combine of forming an 'opportunistic' alliance and said the popular mandate had been subverted due to their 'conspiracy'.
 
He recalled his struggles as a politician and said how he helped build the party, which once had just two MLAs. Now it has 104, he said. The 8-term MLA and twice an MP, Yeddyurappa then announced his decision to step down.
 
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, who along with several top party leaders were present during the floor test, thanked the judiciary for preventing "horse-trading" and "protecting the Constitution, democracy and rule of law".
 
Earlier in the day, the Congress-JD(S) combine preferred not to press before the Supreme Court for the removal of BJP MLA KG Bopaiah as the pro tem speaker. The Court also ordered live telecast of the floor test to ensure transparency.

 
 
 
 
 

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Shibu Chandran
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November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

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