K'taka speaker has to accept resignations: MLAs

July 16, 2019 11:36

The Supreme Court Tuesday commenced hearing on the Karnataka political crisis and would examine "weighty" constitutional issues in the resignation and disqualification of 15 rebel MLAs of the ruling Congress-Janat Dal-Secular coalition.

Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, lawyer for rebel MLAs told the apex court that Karnataka speaker has to accept resignation of MLAs and there is no other way to deal with it.

Rohatgi also said that there is vote of confidence in assembly and rebel MLAs may be forced to follow whip despite resigning.

The apex court, which was dealing with the plea of 10 rebel MLAs on July 12, will now hear five more lawmakers who have sought identical relief that Karnataka Assembly Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar accept their resignations as well.

The five MLAs -- Anand Singh, K Sudhakar, N Nagaraj, Munirathna and Roshan Baig -- mentioned their application before a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Deepak Gupta Monday seeking impleadment as parties to the pending plea on which it was ordered that the speaker would not take any decision till Tuesday on the resignations and disqualifications.

Image: Karnataka assembly speaker KR Ramesh Kumar at Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru. Photograph: Shailendra Bhojak/PTI Photo

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