Congress Goa in-charge Chella Kumar to leave for Goa today, he with other party leaders will meet the Guv tomorrow & say that being the single largest party Congress should be invited to form govt in Goa. If necessary Congress can parade its MLAs also at Governor house: Sources
Congress workers are staging protests across major cities in India, including the Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow and Jaipur, besides Bengaluru.
With 15 days left for #BharatiyaJanataParty to prove its majority in the #Karnataka Assembly, outgoing Chief Minister #Siddaramaiah alleged that the former was resorting to horse-trading to get the required number.
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— ANI Digital (@ani_digital) May 17, 2018
In constitution there’s no separate rule for Goa & K’taka. Though Guv committed mistake in 2017 she has chance to rectify it now. We’re confident. Guv has given time for 11.30 am tomorrow. I’ll go with MLAs to meet her & stake our claim to form govt: Chella Kumar, Goa in-charge pic.twitter.com/Kck494DoJ2
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
National President of JD(S) HD Deve Gowda had a telephonic conversation with Congress President Rahul Gandhi over the current political situation in the state of Karnataka. (file pics) pic.twitter.com/EjeknKF0N9
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
BJP people are doing horse-trading. This is unethical and against the principles of democracy. No MLA will yield to their demand: Siddaramaiah, Congress #Karnataka pic.twitter.com/gC1i6SW7vw
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
How will BJP prove majority? Amit Shah has only one formula, horse-trading or sending agencies like IT, CBI & ED behind MLAs of other parties. It’s dictatorship by BJP. If we aren’t united today then it was Bihar y’day, Karnataka today, can be MP, Chhattisgarh or Rajasthan tom
— Tejashwi Yadav (@yadavtejashwi) May 17, 2018
We are not leaving now. There is a meeting at 7.30 pm after that we will decide: ST Somashekhar, Congress on if party MLAs are being shifted from Eagleton Resort near Bengaluru to some other place #Karnataka pic.twitter.com/wF2tG8koUd
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
Former Manipur CM Okram Ibobi Singh & former Meghalaya CM Mukul Sangma have sought time from respective Governors of the state for a meeting tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/M3xunbU8Vf
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
#WATCH: Karnataka CM BS Yedyurappa addresses the media in Bengaluru https://t.co/cwpQfzgJ0X
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
Visuals from outside Eagleton Resort near Bengaluru where Congress MLAs are lodged. Police forces stationed outside the resort have been removed. #KarnatakaElections pic.twitter.com/31CEnxtcds
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
Lucknow: Members and workers of Congress staged protest against #Karnataka Governor for inviting BS Yedurappa to form govt there. pic.twitter.com/YbgNEvqhvv
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) May 17, 2018
Congress-JD(S) moves fresh plea in Supreme Court challenging Governor’s decision to nominate an Anglo-Indian MLA to Assembly. Court to hear their plea on Friday along with the main case against Karnataka Governor for inviting BS Yedurappa for making govt. pic.twitter.com/5b47Z7S3ZI
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
#Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa arrived at BJP party office in Bengaluru. pic.twitter.com/KLcGTxuBWQ
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
Vajubhai Vala had sacrificed his seat for Narendra Modi earlier,y’day he sacrificed Constitution&democracy for him. He conducted 1st encounter of Constitution y’day when he invited BJP to form govt. Today when he swore-in BS Yeddyurappa,he conducted its 2nd encounter: R Surjewala pic.twitter.com/7DVyzU8vxW
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
BS Yeddyurappa is going to be the CM for a day, half of which has already gone by: Randeep Surjewala, Congress #KarnatakaElections2018 pic.twitter.com/i8f43tjVlb
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
Congress Goa in-charge Chella Kumar to leave for Goa today, he with other party leaders will meet the Guv tomorrow & say that being the single largest party Congress should be invited to form govt in Goa. If necessary Congress can parade its MLAs also at Governor house: Sources pic.twitter.com/yLoYAPO98t
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
JD(S)’s HD Deve Gowda joins Congress protest at Vidhan Soudha, against BS Yeddyurappa sworn-in as Chief Minister of Karnataka.
#WATCH Senior lawyer Ram Jethmalani speaks on Karnataka politics, says, ‘What has BJP said to Guv, that he did such a stupid action? Order of Guv is open invitation to do corruption.’ Jethmalani has approached SC against Karnataka Guv’s invitation to Yeddyurappa for forming govt. pic.twitter.com/uLa0oXcPQZ
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
Bengaluru: JD(S)’s HD Deve Gowda joins Congress protest at Vidhan Soudha, against BS Yeddyurappa sworn-in as CM of #Karnataka. pic.twitter.com/mI86OgqBM2
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
BS Yeddyurappa has taken the oath but it’s difficult to prove majority. Governor should have called those who had maximum numbers. When this happens people say, loktantra ki hatya ho gayi, lekin jab desh mein loktantra bacha hi nahi hai toh hatya kiski hogi:Sanjay Raut, Shiv Sena pic.twitter.com/Ja2tTABDBM
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
Congress holds protest at Mahatma Gandhi’s statue in Vidhan Soudha, against BS Yeddyurappa’s swearing in as Chief Minsiter of Karnataka. GN Azad, Ashok Gehlot, Mallikarjun Kharge, KC Venugopal and Siddaramaiah present.
#UpdateVisuals from Bengaluru: Congress holds protest at Mahatma Gandhi’s statue in Vidhan Soudha, against BS Yeddyurappa’s swearing in as CM of #Karnataka. GN Azad, Ashok Gehlot, Mallikarjun Kharge, KC Venugopal and Siddaramaiah present. pic.twitter.com/asDWeGJTpD
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah slams BJP says, “The matter is pending before the Court. We will go to the people and we will tell them how BJP is going against the Constitution.”
The matter is pending before the Court. We will go to the people and we will tell them how BJP is going against the Constitution: Siddaramaiah in Bengaluru #Karnataka pic.twitter.com/8GZj9SmSSj
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
Bharatiya Janata Party’s B.S. Yeddyurappa finally takes oath at Raj Bhavan.
#WATCH Live from Bengaluru: BS Yeddyurappa takes oath as Karnataka Chief Minister https://t.co/8wqUptkkvV
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
#Karnataka: BS Yeddyurappa arrives at Raj Bhavan, to take oath as Karnataka Chief Minister shortly pic.twitter.com/IQLSPrGz2u
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
#WATCH BJP workers chant slogans of ‘Vande Mataram and Modi, Modi’ outside Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru, as oath taking ceremony of BS Yeddyurappa as Karnataka CM to is set to begin shortly pic.twitter.com/npZthZbqZd
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
I think all the precedents are with the Governor’s decision. We will get the support, we will prove our majority on the floor of the House: Ananth Kumar, BJP at Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru pic.twitter.com/ynWOEBhxk9
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
Bengaluru: BS Yeddyurappa leaves for Raj Bhavan, to take oath as Karnataka Chief Minister shortly. pic.twitter.com/gfX5kXi698
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
#Karnataka: Visuals from outside BS Yeddyurappa’s residence, in Bengaluru. He will take oath as Karnataka chief minister at 9 am today. pic.twitter.com/zBOvty7jK6
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
#Karnataka: Visuals from outside Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru. BS Yeddyurappa to take oath as Karnataka chief minister at 9 am. pic.twitter.com/MpF2x5aNPT
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
#Karnataka: Security deployed outside BJP office in Bengaluru pic.twitter.com/6Jjo17hKy3
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
Bengaluru: Swearing-in ceremony of BS Yeddyurappa as the Chief Minister of Karnataka to begin shortly; Union Ministers JP Nadda, Dharmendra Pradhan and Prakash Javadekar present at Raj Bhavan #Karnataka pic.twitter.com/yV3BEj8wNL
— ANI (@ANI) May 17, 2018
Supreme Court has refused to stay swearing-in ceremony of BJP’s B.S. Yeddyurappa as the Karnataka Chief Minister after Congress filed a last-minute petition in the apex court challenging the same.
The three-judge bench of Justice A.K. Sikri, Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice SA Bobde, however, did not dismiss the petition filed by Congress and JD(S) and said: “This petition is a subject of hearing later on”. The hearing will now take place on Friday at 10:30 am. Late last night, Congress and JD(S) challenged Karnataka Governor Vajubhai R. Vala’s decision to invite BJP to form the government even as the saffron party, with 105 MLAs, including one Independent MLA, is seven short of the halfway mark of 112.
Former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, appeared for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Tushar Mehta for the Union government, and Abhishek Manu Singhvi for the Congress-JD(S) alliance. While contesting the case in court, Singhvi tagged the Karnataka Governor’s decision as “completely unconstitutional.” “It’s unheard that a party is given 15 days time to prove its majority from 104 to the magical number (112). Giving permission to form the government to someone who is having 104 seats as compared to the other group (Congress-JD(S)) that is having 116, is adding insult to injury,” he said.
He even offered that the “swearing-in ceremony can be held day after tomorrow (on Friday).” However, Rohatgi, while urging the judges to dismiss the petition, said, “They want an injunction to stop discharging function of one of the highest constitutional functionary.” He even said the matter should not have been heard in the court at midnight.
“The matter shouldn’t be heard in the night. Heavens won’t fall if someone is sworn in. Last time SC heard in night, the case [was] related to hanging of Yakub Memon (convict of 1993 Mumbai bombings case),” Rohatgi said. Congress and JD(S) are opposing Karnataka Governor’s decision as they are contending that despite their alliance having 115 MLAs, they have not been invited by Vala to form the government, whereas the BJP, which has emerged as the single largest party with 104 seats, has been asked to form the government and given 15 days to prove its majority in the state assembly.