BJP Karnataka President,BS Yeddyurappa:We respect you, Speaker sir.Governor's last letter said the vote should finish today. People on our side will sit peacefully till late in the night. Let it take however long it takes & it'll also mean that we can respect Governor's direction pic.twitter.com/4RpB4s9qCC
Karnataka Chief Minister, H D Kumaraswamy has also moved the Supreme Court and challenged the Governor's letter which had asked him to complete the trust vote by 1.30 pm today pic.twitter.com/rvgOc3VQfM
Siddaramaiah,Congress on trust vote debate in Karnataka assembly: The discussion is still not complete and 20 members are yet to participate.I don’t think it will finish today and it will continue on Monday also. (file pic) pic.twitter.com/pmCUng1GeL
Karnataka Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar: Governor's order has to be followed or not, it has to be decided by Chief Minister because the letter was sent to him, so he has to decide. pic.twitter.com/DeMtDR6m02
The Speaker dismissed suggestions that he was trying to delay the vote on the confidence motion.
"I don't have to be partisan," Kumar said, expressing anguish over suggestions that he was trying to delay the trust vote.
He said there was discussion and "indirect comments" made that he was delaying the process (vote of confidence).
After making his remarks, the Speaker asked the chief minister to speak on the debate on the trust vote, saying, "I am clear... no scope for any other discussion (except the trust vote)."
Speaker Ramesh Kumar: Congress MLA Shrimant Patil wrote letter to Governor saying 'I went to Chennai for personal work&felt chest pain. Visited hospital& on doctor suggestion I came to Mumbai and got admitted here. Hence couldn't attend assembly session,was not kidnapped by BJP' pic.twitter.com/edwFUyX26t
Chief Minister Kumaraswamy accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of resorting to ways to circumvent the anti-defection law.
Legislators were offered Rs 40-50 crore to lure them, he accused, questioning the source of the money. He further questioned the BJP as to why it is in a hurry to end the trust vote debate in one day if it was sure of its numbers.
Janata Dal (Secular) MLA Srinivas Gowda also alleged he was offered Rs 5 crore bribe by the BJP to defect to bring down government.
Right from the time JD(S)-Congress government came to power, an "atmosphere" was created to remove it, Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy said today, addressing the assembly during the trust vote debate.
He asked the Bharatiya Janata Party to engage in debate with him saying they can still form the government. "Let's have discussion. You can still form government. Nothing urgent. You can do it on Monday or Tuesday also. I am not going to misuse power," Kumaraswamy told BJP.
After 14 months, "we have come to the final stage," says Kumaraswamy during the debate on trust vote in the Assembly.
"I have not tried to misuse power," says Kumaraswamy on the ongoing political crisis in Karnataka.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G. Parameshwara meets BJP MLAs who were on an over night 'dharna' at Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru. pic.twitter.com/ydgCOgBQHG
Karnataka Congress MP, Nasir Hussain: I think the Congress party will go to Supreme Court because Governor cannot interfere in the matter of Speaker, he has no right to do it. Governor is arbitrarily interfering and trying to work as agent of a party. #KarnatakaFloorTestpic.twitter.com/Ha8Bvb7lXo
Debate on a floor test against Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy resumed in the state Assembly, marking the second day of the high drama political upheaving that may or may not result in the collapse of the rebellion-stricken Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) government.
The drama unfolded right from the start as, facing truncated strength caused by the resignation of 16 ruling coalition MLAs, Kumaraswamy moved a one-line motion, saying the House expressed confidence in the 14-month old government headed by him.
Twenty lawmakers did not turn up on Thursday, including 17 from the ruling coalition, 12 of whom are corralled in a hotel in Mumbai, as the House debated in a surcharged atmosphere.
This is the third motion on trust vote in the assembly after the 2018 assembly polls yielded a fractured mandate with the BJP emerging as the single largest party with 104 seats but failing to mobilise numbers.
