{"id":314280,"date":"2019-07-28T09:11:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T09:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314280"},"modified":"2019-07-28T09:11:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T09:11:10","slug":"karnataka-speaker-kr-ramesh-kumar-disqualifies-14-rebel-mlas-day-before-yediyurappa-govts-floor-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/karnataka-speaker-kr-ramesh-kumar-disqualifies-14-rebel-mlas-day-before-yediyurappa-govts-floor-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar disqualifies 14 rebel MLAs day before Yediyurappa govt\u2019s floor test"},"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-314281 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/KR-Ramesh-Kumar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/KR-Ramesh-Kumar.jpg 515w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/KR-Ramesh-Kumar-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Karnataka Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar on Sunday disqualified 14 rebel MLAs with immediate effect till end of the assembly term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Eleven rebel MLAs of the Congress and three from Janata Dal Secular were disqualified by the speaker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The move came a day before the new chief minister of Karnataka BS Yediyurappa will have to prove his majority in the House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">KR Ramesh whose office extends till a new Speaker is chosen, said, \u201cI would not resign. I will do my duty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Thursday, the Karnataka Speaker had disqualified three rebel Congress lawmakers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress Siddaramaiah welcomed the decision of speaker to disqualify of 14 Lawmakers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI welcome the decision of spreaker to disqualify 14 MLAs. This honest decision of speaker will send strong signals for all the representatives in the country who might fall for @BJP4India&#8217;s trap,\u201d Siddaramaiah tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP had staked claim to power after the 14-month-old Congress-JDS coalition government failed the trust vote last week.\u00a0 BJP defeated the Congress-JDS government by 105-99 votes in the floor test after a long intense power struggle in the Karnataka assembly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar on Sunday disqualified 14 rebel MLAs with immediate effect till end of the assembly term. Eleven rebel MLAs of the Congress and three from Janata Dal Secular were disqualified by the speaker. The move came a day before the new chief minister of Karnataka BS Yediyurappa will have to prove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,1801,2072,2014],"tags":[1430,11671],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314280"}],"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=314280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314282,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314280\/revisions\/314282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}