H.d Kumaraswamy News

Kumaraswamy resigned on July 23 after he lost the trust vote in the state legislative Assembly that he moved on July 18There are allegations that during the last few months of his tenure, the H.D. Kumaraswamy government tapped mobile and landline phones of BJP’s state leaders

Deve Gowda says restructuring the entire party is his biggest priority and challenge. He will start a tour of the stateThe former prime minister shares his thoughts on the Congress, BJP, and the absence of an opposition party in India since Modi’s return to office

The Kumaraswamy government in the state has fallen after a prolonged power tussle that’s best described as an embarrassment to the electoral democracy we are so proud of

Impasse seems to inch toward a Constitutional crisis with governor Vala unsuccessfully trying to interveneBoth the ruling coalition and Oppn traded allegations during debate on a confidence motion

Both sides claim to have the numbers to make it throughThe coalition blame Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah for engineering the crisis

The Speaker is yet to meet any of the legislators to decide if resignations were voluntaryStatus quo by the Supreme Court has added to confusion over the scope of the whip

At least 10 legislators from the Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) are lodged in the Renaissance hotel in PowaiThe legislators have refused to meet senior Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar

Congress party and its allies raised the issue as soon as the House proceedings began on MondayThe Congress also gave an adjournment motion notice on ’BJP trying to topple Congress-JDS government in Karnataka’ in the lower house

Nine legislators from the Congress and three from the JD(S) handed their resignations to the assembly speakerIt would bring the one-year-old coalition government led by chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on the brink of a collapse

Making matters worse, JD(S) leader G.T. Deve Gowda said BJP is not responsible for resignations of Congress MLAsRao is one of just two members in the state committee whose position has not been dissolved by the party in its reorganization exercise