BJP wants floor test in Karnataka on Monday
Bengaluru, July 14 (UNI): Even though JD(S)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka has expressed its desire to hold a floor test on a date decided by Assembly speaker, the opposition BJP wants to hold it on Monday itself.
Opposition leader B.S. Yeddyurappa said on Sunday that the party will not allow any subject to be taken up in the Assembly until the HD Kumaswamy government seeks a floor test.
The chief minister on the opening day of the 11-day Monsoon Session of the Karnataka Assembly in Bengaluru on Friday had said that he was wiling to hold a confidence vote on the floor of the House and requested the Speaker to decide a date for the same in the coming week.
The state government is facing severe dissident activities as more than a dozen Congress-JD(S) MLAs resigned leaving the Kumaswamy government on the verge of collapse.
As many as 15 Congress MLA have moved the Supreme Court against Speaker for not accepting their resignation.
One of the rebel Congress MLAs, MTB Nagaraj has however, said that he was willing to withdraw his resignation and continue in the party.
Meanwhile, Karnataka BJP president Yeddyurappa said the survival chances of the coalition government was "thin" and it would collapse on Monday.
"We will be pressing for a vote of confidence on Monday with the Speaker Ramesh Kumar. This government will lose its confidence vote as the people of the State and the Legislators have lost confidence in this government," Yeddyurappa told reporters at the resort where the 105 BJP MLAs are staying.
Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar said if rebel MLAs vote against the government they would be disqualified. The Speaker doesn't have the right to disqualify anybody because of the Supreme Court's decision. Asserting that the coalition government in Karnataka has lost majority, the state BJP on Sunday demanded Kumaraswamy to immediately resign or seek a trust vote on Monday itself.
Kumaraswamy has to seek trust vote on Monday itself as it appears he has no support of his own MLAs, Yeddyurappa added.
Congress leader Shivakumar on Sunday said that his party is willing to settle the demands of the rebel MLAs and hoped they will support the coalition government.
"The Congress party is ready to settle their demands. We are getting signals that they will save our government," he said.
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