Yeddy reaches Assembly ahead of trust vote today

July 23, 2019 10:15

Karnataka leader of the opposition, BS Yeddyurappa, and other BJP MLAs arrive at the Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru. The HD Kumaraswamy government will face a floor test in the Assembly today.

The Karnataka assembly was adjourned till Tuesday without voting on the confidence motion moved by Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy even after three days of debate, amid ruckus by Congress and JDS, which insisted voting can await the Supreme Court ruling.

As the House debated the motion with frequent pandemonium, Congress made its intentions clear right from the beginning that voting be deferred as the apex Court was seized of pleas by two Independent MLAs on the issue of trust vote.

The Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday a fresh plea of two Independent Karnataka MLAs, seeking holding of the floor test "forthwith" in the state Assembly on the trust motion.

The MLAs who withdrew support to the ruling coalition have sought a direction to the Kumaraswamy government to conduct the floor test on or before 5 pm on Monday.

Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar adjourned the House at 11.45 pm after repeatedly reminding the government it should honour its commitment to conclude the trust vote proceedings Monday itself, but an unrelenting Congress created a ruckus towards the end of the day's proceedings.

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