{"id":314102,"date":"2019-07-19T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314102"},"modified":"2019-07-19T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T11:32:00","slug":"karnataka-assembly-trust-vote-governor-sets-new-6-pm-deadline-for-hd%e2%80%89kumaraswamy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/karnataka-assembly-trust-vote-governor-sets-new-6-pm-deadline-for-hd%e2%80%89kumaraswamy\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka Assembly Trust Vote: Governor sets new 6 pm deadline for HD\u2009Kumaraswamy"},"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-307466 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/hd-kumarswamy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/hd-kumarswamy.jpg 515w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/hd-kumarswamy-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress-Janata Dal Secular (JDS) coalition in Karnataka on Friday received a new deadline from Governor Vajubhai Vala to prove majority by the end of the day, after it missed the first deadline of 1:30 pm set by the governor.<\/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- JDS coalition government said it was bound to follow only the Speaker, who adjourned the house for lunch after a debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy in his statement accused the BJP of offering &#8220;Rs.\u00a040-50 crore&#8221; to lawmakers to switch sides.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He asked the BJP MLAs what was the hurry to hold the trust vote and said why they could not wait until Monday or Tuesday to form the government. He requested them to have a discussion.<\/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 in a tweet calls BJP the most\u00a0unprincipled Government in the history of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe attempt to topple the Karnataka Govt through the unconstitutional directive by the Governor and the attempted bribery of MLAs shows that this BJP Govt is the most unprincipled Govt in the history of India,\u201d the Congress tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On a request from a BJP delegation, the Governor had yesterday written to the Speaker that you have lost majority\/confidence of the House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt has been reported to me that the proceedings of the house on 18-07-2019 for vote of confidence has been stalled and consequently adjourned without reaching any finality. This cannot go on in a democratic set up governed by the Constitution of India,\u201d the letter reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Wednesday the apex court had said that the rebel MLAs should not be compelled to take part in the proceedings of the State Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Following 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>Congress-Janata Dal Secular (JDS) coalition in Karnataka on Friday received a new deadline from Governor Vajubhai Vala to prove majority by the end of the day, after it missed the first deadline of 1:30 pm set by the governor. The Congress- JDS coalition government said it was bound to follow only the Speaker, who adjourned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":307466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,1801,2072,2014],"tags":[9466,1552,1430,11634],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314102"}],"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=314102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314103,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314102\/revisions\/314103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}