Bengaluru, Jul 25: Karnataka Legislative Assembly Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar drew curtains for the Resignation Crisis by disqualifying 3 Congress MLAs and reserving his order on the Resignation of remaining MLAs.
It may be recalled here that the issue had reached the Supreme Court as some of the resigned MLAs had approached and also rocked the Lok Sabha when there was delay allegedly by the Speaker in taking up for voting the Confidence motion moved by the then Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy to seek confidence in the 14 month Congress-JDS Coalition Government.
Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, the Speaker announced that R Shankar, who was inducted as Minister in the Kumaraswamy Ministry, was disqualified as he has announced in his resignation submitted to the Governor that he will extend his support to BJP despite merging his KPPR party with Congress before swearing in as Minister. He handed over the letter to CLP leader Siddaramaiah.
Both Siddaramaiah and KPCC President Dinesh Gundurao gave complaint letter to disqualify him since he has written that he will support BJP, which is against Congress Principles.
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