Thirteen months after its turbulent birth, the JD(S)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka was reduced to a minority on Saturday when 13 disgruntled MLAs — 10 Congressmen and three from JD(S) — tendered their resignations from the assembly and withdrew support to the H D Kumaraswamy-led government.
If Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar accepts the resignations, the coalition’s number will plunge to 105 from 118 in the 224-member assembly, where 113 is the majority mark. BJP’s strength in the assembly is also 105. The speaker said that as Sunday is a holiday and he’s on leave on Monday, he’ll take up this issue only on Tuesday.

Thirteen months after its turbulent birth, the JD(S)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka was reduced to a minority on Saturday when 13 disgruntled MLAs — 10 Congressmen and three from JD(S) — tendered their resignations from the assembly and withdrew support to the H D Kumaraswamy-led government.
If Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar accepts the resignations, the coalition’s number will plunge to 105 from 118 in the 224-member assembly, where 113 is the majority mark. BJP’s strength in the assembly is also 105. The speaker said that as Sunday is a holiday and he’s on leave on Monday, he’ll take up this issue only on Tuesday.