{"id":314300,"date":"2019-07-29T07:40:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T07:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314300"},"modified":"2019-07-29T07:40:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T07:40:37","slug":"bs-yediyurappa-wins-trust-vote-in-karnataka-assembly-speaker-kr-ramesh-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bs-yediyurappa-wins-trust-vote-in-karnataka-assembly-speaker-kr-ramesh-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"BS Yediyurappa wins trust vote in Karnataka Assembly, speaker KR Ramesh resigns"},"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=\" wp-image-314301 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/BS-yediruppa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/BS-yediruppa.jpg 443w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/BS-yediruppa-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/BS-yediruppa-427x420.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday won the floor test in the assembly, thus retaining his position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Yediyurappa, proved his majority in the Assembly winning the confidence motion by a voice vote after the majority mark in the House has slid to 105. On Sunday Speaker KR Ramesh disqualified the rebel MLAs bringing down the strength of the 225-member Assembly to 208.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After winning the trust vote, the Karnataka chief minister in a tweet said, \u201cWinning the trust vote is, taking one more step closer towards a stable and strong administration. Will uphold the trust by ensuring transparent and accountable governance. I would like to thank the citizens, MLAs and each and every BJP Karyakartha for the trust placed in me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Soon after BS Yediyurappa won the confidence motion, Speaker KR Ramesh submitted his letter of resignation to deputy speaker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said, \u201c@BSYBJP will not be able to complete full term as they are dependent on those who have lost all morals. This govt is nothing but unconstitutional &amp; immoral. When @BSYBJP took the oath, half way mark was 111 but how on Earth did they show numbers to the governor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI would like to see @BSYBJP as @CMofKarnataka for rest of the term but unfortunately that is not possible because of the unholy way they have formed the govt,\u201d Siddaramaiah added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said, \u201c@BSYBJP has taken oath for 4 times but he lacked numbers in all instances. Having 105 seats is not people&#8217; mandate. He is like a &#8216;Crony Capitalist&#8217; who manufacturers numbers in a way that is harmful for a democratic nation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On July 26, BS Yediyurappa took oath as Chief Minister for the fourth time, three days after the collapse of 14-month-old Congress-JD(S) coalition government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Last week, H D Kumaraswamy 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>Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday won the floor test in the assembly, thus retaining his position. Yediyurappa, proved his majority in the Assembly winning the confidence motion by a voice vote after the majority mark in the House has slid to 105. On Sunday Speaker KR Ramesh disqualified the rebel MLAs bringing down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,1801,2072,2014],"tags":[11666,1430,11675],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314300"}],"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=314300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314302,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314300\/revisions\/314302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}