Disaster in Karnataka Congress, reach speaker’s office

NPnews24 Online: A major crisis has hit Karnataka with eleven Congress and JDS MLAs ready to resign. They have already reached the Karnataka assembly speaker’s office in the Vidhana Soudha and are waiting for him. The speaker is not present at a private hospital. If these MLAs resign, the strength will come to 215 and half way mark is 108.

Among those who have put forward their resignation are H Vishwanath (JDS), Mahesh Kumthali (Congress), BC Patil (Congress, Ramesh Jarkiholi (Congress), Shivaram Hebbar (Congrees), Narayan Gowda (JDS), Gopalia (JDS), ST Somashekar (Congress), Muniratna (Congress) and Pratap Gowda (Congress) and Byrathi Basavaraj (Congress).

Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara and State minister D K Shivakumar have called an emergency meeting of Congress Bengaluru MLAs and corporators later today after 8.

BJP’s S Prakash said JDS and Congress have failed to keep their flock together. Had they done so, this situation wouldn’t have arrived.