SC To Hear Plea Of 5 More Karnataka Rebel MLAs Seeking Acceptance Of Resignation On Tuesday

The five other MLAs had sought impleadment in the already pending application filed by the 10 other rebels MLAs on which the hearing is scheduled for Tuesday.

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said that it would hear the plea of the five more Karnataka rebel MLAs on Tuesday along with the already pending petition of 10 other rebel legislators seeking acceptance of resignation. We would likely hear the case of five rebel MLAs-K Sudhakar, Roshan Baig, MTB Nagaraj, Muniratna and Anand Singh, tomorrow along with the main petition which is pending before us, the court said. On Saturday, five rebel Congress MLAs Anand Singh, K Sudhakar, N Nagaraj, Munirathna and Roshan Baig, moved the SC against the Speaker of Karnataka Assembly for allegedly not accepting their resignation. They had sought impleadment in the already pending application filed by the 10 other rebels MLAs on which the hearing is scheduled for Tuesday. These 10 rebel MLAs of Congress- JD(S) coalition who moved the apex court earlier alleging that the Speaker was not accepting their resignations 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. Hearing their plea, the Supreme Court had on Friday restrained Karnataka Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar from taking any decision till Tuesday on the resignation and disqualification of these 10 MLAs. Citing "weighty issues that have arisen", the apex court said it will consider the matter on July 16 and ordered that the status quo as of Friday should be maintained. The resignation of these MLAs has plunged the H D Kumaraswamy government in Karanataka into a crisis as it faces the risk losing majority in the Assembly.