In a violent turn to Karnataka political crisis, a rebel congress MLA Dr K Sudhakar who submitted his resignation to Speaker Ramesh Kumar was heckled, abducted and attacked at seat of power Vidhana Soudha on Wednesday by Congress leaders.
Amidst violent attack on Chikkaballapura MLA who was locked up at Minister KJ George’s room by Congress president Dinesh Gundu Rao and another Minister Priyank Kharge, Governor Vaju
Bhai Vala has directed the Bengaluru police Commissioner Alok Kumar to produce the MLA before him within few minutes. This shameful incident which is a blot on the democracy has put the Congress in a pitiable position. The Governor’s intervention has saved him and later he went to Governor and submitted a copy of his resignation.
The TV grab showed Dinesh Gundu Rao , Priyank Kharge and other congress leaders heckled and dragged Sudhakar in to the room of Minister KJ George at Vidhana Soudha and locked him up. Then Congress leader and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah came inside amidst protest by the BJP. After the Governor’s direction he was rescued by the police and taken him to the Governor. Siddaramaiah failed to convince Sudhakar and keeping a great silence.
Earlier in the day, another powerful and richest MLA in the country MTB Nagaraj submitted his resignation pushed Kumaraswamy-led coalition Government into minority Government.
This incident was a recap of 1994 where Ramakrishna Hegde and other leaders were chased, heckled attacked and locked up in a toilet by Devegowda supporters where he was declared Chief Minister before he became the Prime Minister. This incident shows dirty and political low of the law makers who are fighting for power.
With the resignations of 16 Congress and JD(S) MLAs, the strength of the coalition Government reduced to 101 and BJP has 107 in the total strength of 208 member house. The magic number is 105 and it has been reduced minority.
It is also rumoured that Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy will resign on the house (monsoon session) which commences from on Friday.
Meanwhile, the MLAs who are holed up in the Mumbai hotel have petitioned the SC which is crucial as in the case of Yeddyurappa where he had to resign on the floor of the house before proving majority.
Siddaramaiah blamed PM, Amit Shah of orchestrating the entire drama and called this an anti democracy.
BJP led by Yeddyurappa protested against congress and petitioned governor and also met the speaker asking him to take a decision on the resignations of MLAs. BJP also blamed him for procrastinating and delay in accepting the resignations.
It is also expected more MLAs would resign putting an end to the coalition politics.