{"id":313897,"date":"2019-07-06T11:41:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T11:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313897"},"modified":"2019-07-06T11:41:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T11:41:13","slug":"karnataka-congress-jds-coalition-government-in-crisis-as-11-mlas-submit-resignations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/karnataka-congress-jds-coalition-government-in-crisis-as-11-mlas-submit-resignations\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka: Congress- JDS coalition government in crisis as 11 MLAs submit resignations"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-313898 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/congress-jds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"623\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/congress-jds.jpg 623w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/congress-jds-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/congress-jds-526x420.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A fresh trouble have surfaced for the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition government in Karnataka with reports of eight Congress and three Janata Dal Secular (JDS) MLAs resigning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to reports, 11 MLAs on Saturday reached Vidhana Soudha to submit their resignations to\u00a0speaker KR Ramesh Kumar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the speaker was not in office and the MLAs were waiting for him, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If the resignations are accepted, then the current strength of the coalition government will fall down to 105. However, the opposition BJP with current strength of 105 MLAs, will still fall short of a simple majority by two.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The resignations came a week after Congress MLA Anand Singh submitted his resignation to the speaker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy is currently in the United States and would return tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara and state minister DK Shivakumar\u00a0have called\u00a0an emergency meeting of legislators and corporators in the evening, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition government was formed in May last year after the BJP could not prove its majority in the House.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fresh trouble have surfaced for the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition government in Karnataka with reports of eight Congress and three Janata Dal Secular (JDS) MLAs resigning. According to reports, 11 MLAs on Saturday reached Vidhana Soudha to submit their resignations to\u00a0speaker KR Ramesh Kumar. However, the speaker was not in office and the MLAs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,1801,2072,2014],"tags":[236,1472,1430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313897"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313899,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313897\/revisions\/313899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}