Please return: Revanna requests rebel MLAs

Bengaluru: Public Works Department Minister H.D. Revanna, who has been accused of interfering in decisions beyond his department, on Wednesday requested the rebel legislators, who now holed up in a hotel in Mumbai to return back.

Addressing presspersons, a day before the Janata Dal (Secular)-Congress coalition government faces trust vote on the floor of the Legislative assembly Revanna said “I have not hurt any legislator. If I have hurt, I apologize. If I have committed mistake please come back. I am willing to apologize.”

He further added, “I have not intervened in transfers in any other department. My work and influence is restricted to Hassan district and the Public Works Department.”

“Mr. Nagraj had sought a Superintending Engineer and I deployed one. I did not appoint Housing Secretary,” he said.

“This (coalition government) is God’s gift. We will remain as long as it is blessed by God. Why did He bring down the strength (of the coalition) from 118 to 105? We have worked in the government for over a year,” Revanna said invoking God several times and thanking the Almighty for all that he had achieved.