{"id":313946,"date":"2019-07-10T07:35:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T07:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313946"},"modified":"2019-07-10T07:35:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T07:35:28","slug":"rebel-mlas-move-sc-against-karnataka-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rebel-mlas-move-sc-against-karnataka-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel MLAs move SC against Karnataka speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"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-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A group of rebel Congress-JD(S) MLAs approached the Supreme Court on Wednesday against the Karnataka Speaker, alleging that KR Ramesh Kumar has failed in his \u201cconstitutional duty\u201d by not accepting their resignations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi took note of the submission of senior lawyer Mukul Rohatgi and assured him that it will see whether their petition can be listed for an urgent hearing on Thursday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier in the day, a high drama was witnessed outside the Mumbai hotel after Congress leader DK Shivakumar was stopped from entering the hotel where rebel lawmakers are stationed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shivakumar told reporters that he had booked a room in the hotel but was not being permitted inside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, the rebel MLAs had written to the police expressing fears of threat during the visit of Shivakumar to the city and have asked for protection from him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;We are staying at Hotel Renaissance Powai in Mumbai. We have heard that HD Kumaraswamy and Shivakumar are going to storm the hotel premises and we feel threatened because of the same. Kind request to help us in this matter and do not allow them to enter the hotel premises,&#8221; the rebels had written to the Mumbai police last night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shivakumar said that he would not leave without meeting the MLAs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Since last week, the 13-month-old Congress-JDS coalition government in Karnataka has been fighting for survival with several exits.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of rebel Congress-JD(S) MLAs approached the Supreme Court on Wednesday against the Karnataka Speaker, alleging that KR Ramesh Kumar has failed in his \u201cconstitutional duty\u201d by not accepting their resignations. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi took note of the submission of senior lawyer Mukul Rohatgi and assured him that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,2100,2072,2014,2026],"tags":[1430,1467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313946"}],"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=313946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313947,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313946\/revisions\/313947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}