{"id":314076,"date":"2019-07-18T16:28:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T16:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314076"},"modified":"2019-07-19T03:45:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T03:45:30","slug":"karnataka-crisis-no-trust-vote-today-bjp-leaders-hold-protest-in-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/karnataka-crisis-no-trust-vote-today-bjp-leaders-hold-protest-in-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka crisis: No Trust Vote today, BJP leaders hold protest in Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314077 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot_20190718-215719__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Screenshot_20190718-215719__01.jpg 655w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Screenshot_20190718-215719__01-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Screenshot_20190718-215719__01-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Screenshot_20190718-215719__01-550x420.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The HD Kumaraswamy-led Congress-JD(S) coalition government did not face a trust vote on Thursday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP members has decided to spend the night in the assembly to protest adjournment despite Governor Vajubhai Vala\u2019s letter to Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar urging him to hold the trust vote on Thursday itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOur MLAs will sit on an overnight &#8216;dharna&#8217; in the state assembly demanding that the Speaker replies to the Governor&#8217;s letter and holds a floor test,\u201d BJP Karnataka said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe whole of this nation is seeing the desperation of @hd_kumaraswamy for power. How can anyone hold on to govt when they don\u2019t have,\u201d BJP Karnataka added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Karnataka Speaker decided to adjourn the House until 11 am on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">CM Kumaraswamy moved the motion for a trust vote after Supreme Court pronounced its decision on rebel MLAs&#8217; resignations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In his speech, Kumaraswamy accused the BJP of trying to put hurdles before his government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The top court on Wednesday said that the Congress-JD(S) coalition MLAs in Karnataka should not be compelled to take part in the proceedings of the State Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After the resignation of MLAs, the coalition which formed the government with 117 lawmakers in the 224 Karnataka Assembly, will be left with 101 compared to BJP\u2019s 107 including two independents.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HD Kumaraswamy-led Congress-JD(S) coalition government did not face a trust vote on Thursday. The BJP members has decided to spend the night in the assembly to protest adjournment despite Governor Vajubhai Vala\u2019s letter to Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar urging him to hold the trust vote on Thursday itself.\u00a0 \u201cOur MLAs will sit on an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,1801,2072,2014],"tags":[453,9466,1430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314076"}],"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=314076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314080,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314076\/revisions\/314080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}