Karnataka crisis: HDK meets rebel Congress MLA Ramalinga Reddy

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, who rushed to Bengaluru on Sunday, July 7 evening from his tour of the USA following the resignations of rebel MLAs, is said to have met Congress MLA Ramalinga Reddy on Monday morning.

Meanwhile, Karnataka Congress legislature party leader Siddharamaiah and Ministers UT Khader, Shivashankara Reddy, Venkataramanappa, Jayamala, MB Patil, Krishna Byre Gowda, Rajshekar Patil, Rajshekar Patil, DK Shivakumar have reached Deputy CM G Parameshwara’s residence for breakfast meeting amid the ongoing crisis in the state precipitated by the resignation of 13 Congress-JD(S) MLAs, which has threatened to topple the 13-month-old alliance government.

On Saturday, July 6 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 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.