{"id":308107,"date":"2019-01-15T12:38:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T12:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308107"},"modified":"2019-01-16T06:53:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T06:53:50","slug":"karnataka-two-legislators-withdraw-support-to-congress-jds-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/karnataka-two-legislators-withdraw-support-to-congress-jds-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka: Two legislators withdraw support to Congress-JDS government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308109 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/HD-kumarswamy-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/HD-kumarswamy-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/HD-kumarswamy.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Two independent lawmakers of Karnataka on Tuesday withdrew support from the Congress-JDS government in Karnataka, less than a year after the government was sworn in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">H Nagesh and R Shankar pullout of the government under Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The lawmakers said that they were withdrawing support extended to the coalition government of the Congress and the JDS with immediate effect.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">H Nagesh is an Independent from Mulbagal constituency in\u00a0Kolar\u00a0district while R Shankar, belongs to the regional\u00a0Karnataka\u00a0Pragnavantha\u00a0Janata\u00a0Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The move came amid an ongoing political war between the coalition partners JD-S and\u00a0Congress\u00a0and the Bharatiya\u00a0Janata\u00a0Party (BJP) over alleged poaching of Congress legislators by the BJP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the 224-member Karnataka Assembly, the Congress has 80 MLAs including the Speaker, the JD-S 37\u00a0and the BJP with 104<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While the BJP has denied the poaching allegations, it has kept 99 of its 104 legislators at a private resort in Gurugram, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two independent lawmakers of Karnataka on Tuesday withdrew support from the Congress-JDS government in Karnataka, less than a year after the government was sworn in. H Nagesh and R Shankar pullout of the government under Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy. The lawmakers said that they were withdrawing support extended to the coalition government of the Congress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,1801,2072,2014],"tags":[10603,1552,1430,10604,10602],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308110,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308107\/revisions\/308110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}