Karnataka CM resigns, fails trust vote |
aIndian National Congress, lost one more state under its control on Tuesday as its government in Karnataka failed the trust vote in the state assembly. The Congress has claimed that it was the result of the "unscrupulous political horse trading by the BJP". Congress General Secretary K C Venugopal issued a statement stating, "The sabotage of a duly elected government in Karnataka carried out by the BJP is one of the most heinous and subversive instances of blatant political horse tradings the country has ever witnessed." The trust vote was held on Tuesday evening after a lengthy tug of war between the BJP and the coalition of the Congress and HD Kumaraswamy`s Janata Dal Secular. The coalition lost the contest, getting only 99 votes to the BJP`s 105, making way for a BJP government in the state led by BS Yeddyurappa. Earlier this month, 16 legislators, 13 from the Congress and three from the JDS, resigned and two independent legislators withdrew support to the coalition government. Congress statement stated that the BJP misused central agencies like the Enforcement Directorate and Income Tax department for blackmailing and coercing MLAs. The alliance, formed in May last year to keep the BJP out of power, had been shaky from the start. The trouble for the alliance had started when the coalition failed to bag more than 2 seats in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.
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