DKShi to meet HDD amid political crisis

Bengaluru: Minister DK Shivakumar will JD(S) chief HD Deve Gowda at his residence on Sunday.

AS per the sources, the two leaders will meet at noon, a day after the 13 month-old coalition government of their parties slumped into crisis following the resignation of 11 of their legislators from the membership of the state Assembly.

Meanwhile atate BJP president BS Yeddyurappa on Sunday said “”I am going to Tumkur and I will come back at 4 pm. You know about the political developments. Let’s wait and see. I do not want to answer to what HD Kumaraswamy and Siddaramaiah say. I am nowhere related to this.”

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said he wants the alliance government to continue. “We want that this should go on smoothly,” he said.

Fourteen MLAs of the ruling JD(S)-Congress alliance in Karnataka have submitted their resignation to the Speaker, putting a question mark on the survival of the 13-month-old government.

If the resignations are accepted, the wobbly ruling coalition will lose majority in the 224-member Assembly as its strength will come down to 104.

The crisis, which had been brewing ever since the BJP swept the parliamentary polls in the state, deepened as 13 Congress and JD(S) MLAs reached the Speaker’s office to put in their papers and later met Governor Vajubhai Vala at the Raj Bhavan on Saturday.