{"id":314240,"date":"2019-07-26T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T06:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314240"},"modified":"2019-07-26T06:30:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T06:30:22","slug":"bjps-bs-yeddyurappa-stakes-claim-to-form-government-swearing-in-at-6-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjps-bs-yeddyurappa-stakes-claim-to-form-government-swearing-in-at-6-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP\u2019s BS Yeddyurappa stakes claim to form government, swearing-in at 6 pm"},"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-314199 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screenshot_20190724-124954__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Screenshot_20190724-124954__01.jpg 720w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Screenshot_20190724-124954__01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Screenshot_20190724-124954__01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Screenshot_20190724-124954__01-696x697.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/Screenshot_20190724-124954__01-419x420.jpg 419w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/>The BJP\u2019s BS Yeddyurappa on Friday said that he met Governor Vajubhai Vala and staked claim to form government in Karnataka and would take oath as chief minister in the evening around 6 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cJust now I met the Governor, I will take oath as Chief Minister today around 6 pm,\u201d Yeddyurappa said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A group of Karnataka BJP leaders yesterday met Amit Shah in New Delhi and discussed the future course of action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Two days after the collapse of the Congress-JDS ministry, Karnataka Assembly Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar had disqualified three rebel MLAs under the anti-defection law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday lost the trust vote and the Congress-JD(S) coalition government collapsed in the Assembly. BJP defeated the coalition government by 105-99 votes in the floor test after a long intense power struggle in the Karnataka assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP\u2019s BS Yeddyurappa on Friday said that he met Governor Vajubhai Vala and staked claim to form government in Karnataka and would take oath as chief minister in the evening around 6 pm. \u201cJust now I met the Governor, I will take oath as Chief Minister today around 6 pm,\u201d Yeddyurappa said. A group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,1801,2072,2014],"tags":[453,1549,1430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314240"}],"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=314240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314242,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314240\/revisions\/314242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}