Karnataka Crisis: SC To Hear Plea Of 5 More Rebel MLAs Today; BJP Confident To Form Govt In 4-5 Days

Karnataka Crisis: Days after dealing with the plea of 10 rebel MLAs on July 12, the apex court will today hear five more rebel MLAs who have sought identical relief that Karnataka Assembly speaker K R Ramesh Kumar accept their resignations as well.

Karnataka Crisis: In a crucial hearing on the Karnataka political crisis today, the Supreme Court will examine "weighty" constitutional issues in the resignation and disqualification of 15 rebel MLAs of the ruling Congress-JD(S) coalition.

Karnataka Crisis: In a crucial hearing on the Karnataka political crisis today, the Supreme Court will examine "weighty" constitutional issues in the resignation and disqualification of 15 rebel MLAs of the ruling Congress-JD(S) coalition. Days after dealing with the plea of 10 rebel MLAs on July 12, the apex court will today hear five more rebel MLAs 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. The bench allowed senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi who mentioned the matter for all the 15 MLAs to amend the petition for expanding the grounds in support of their stand to resign. While on July 12, the SC had asked the speaker to maintain status quo on the issue. The 10 rebel MLAs, on whose petition the status quo was ordered, were -- Pratap Gouda Patil, Ramesh Jarkiholi, Byrati Basavaraj, B C Patil, S T Somashekhar, Arbail Shivaram Hebbar, Mahesh Kumathalli, K Gopalaiah, A H Vishwanath and Narayana Gowda. BJP will form govt in 4-5 days: Yeddyurappa As the Congress-JDS coalition government faced uncertainty over its numbers, BJP's Karnataka unit chief B S Yeddyurappa Monday said he was confident of forming the government in the next four to five days. Yeddyurappa's claim came on a day when the assembly speaker K R Ramesh Kumar fixed July 18 for taking up the confidence motion moved by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, whose government is on the verge of collapse after 16 MLAs resigned from the assembly. "I am quite confident that BJP government will come into existence in the next three to four days. The BJP will give the best administration in Karnataka," Yeddyurappa told reporters here. Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy to seek trust vote on July 18 Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy will seek a vote of confidence of the state Assembly on July 18, against the backdrop of 16 MLAs of the ruling Congress and JD(S) tendering their resignation. "I have directed the Chief Minister to hold the floor test in the Assembly on Thursday (July 18)," Speaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar told reporters after a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee of the House here on Monday. The resignations of these MLAs has plunged the H D Kumaraswamy government in Karanataka into a crisis as it faces the risk of losing majority in the Assembly. The Congress-JD(S), along with lone legislators each of BSP and a regional party and an Independent, have 118 MLAs, including the Speaker, in the 225-member House. (With inputs from PTI)