Gowda locks up MLAs in luxury resort ahead of polls tommorow

December 21, 2011 18:23

As Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda prepares to face an acid test in the Legislative Assembly tomorrow, the BJP MLAs have been locked up at the Golden Palms resort in the outskirts of Bangalore, reports rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa.

Gowda faces an election to the legislative council tomorrow in order to continue serving as the CM. Currently he is a Member of Parliament and in order to serve in the state assembly he has to be elected Member of the legislative council.

However, the BJP does not want to take any chances of horse trading and has decided to guard its MLAs until the voting commences tomorrow at 9 am. They will be taken to the Vidhan Soudha at 9 am directly.

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