Karnataka trust vote tomorrow, Cong-JD-S MLAs yet to checkout from hotel rooms

May 24, 2018 18:37

Leaving nothing to chance ahead of the crucial trust vote on Friday, the Congress and JD-S MLAs have been lodged in a luxury resort and hotel in Bengaluru. The lawmakers have been staying away from their families for the last nine days, ever since the fractured verdict in the assembly election.

The Congress has lodged its MLAs at the Hilton Embassy Golflinks at Domlur, while their JD-S counterparts are staying at Prestige Golfshire Resort off Devanahallion the outskirts of Bengaluru city.

A Congress leader, requesting anonymity, said: Our MLAs will be in the resort till the floor test is over. They will then be free to unite with their families. There is a wrong impression that our MLAs are confined. If this is confinement, then everybody would wish to be like them. People are forgetting that they are in the top luxury resort, which ordinary people cannot afford, he said.

He also rubbished claims that their mobile phones have been seized to ensure they have no contact with the outside world. They have their phones with them and they are talking to their families. Some people are spreading rumours to ensure that the new government fails the floor test.

The JD-S too rubbished the claim that its MLAs were barred from talking to anyone outside the resort. JD (S) media cell in-charge Sadananda said, Our MLAs will go back to their constituencies once the floor test is over. Nobody has taken away their mobile phones. They are freely talking to their family members.

The two parties exercised great caution during Wednesdays swearing-in ceremony. All the MLAs were brought to Vidhana Soudha in busses and taken back to the hotel and resort after the event despite the BJP having boycotted the event.

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