Eight MLAs from the ruling Congress-JDS coalition in Karnataka on Saturday went to meet the Speaker of the state Assembly, triggering a buzz that they could resign.
Out of the eight legislators, five are from the Congress and three from Janata Dal-Secular(JD-S), according to sources.
The Speaker K.R.Ramesh Kumar, however, was not in office and the MLAs were waiting for him, sources said.
In the 225-member Assembly, the Congress-JDS led combine has 117 members, just four more than the required majority of 114. The Opposition BJP has 105 MLAs.
If the eight MLAs of the ruling coalition resign, it will become a minority government.
Previous update
Even as speculation was current that 6 ruling party MLAs - 11 Congress and 2 JD(S) - are likely to resign from their assembly seats on Saturday, close to a dozen have already reached the Vidhana Soudha and submitted their resignations to speaker KR Ramesh Kumar. Congress MLAs Ramesh Jarkiholi, BC Patil, Mahesh Kumatalli, Prathapgouda Patil, Shivaram Hebbar, Subba Reddy and H Vishwanath, Narayana Gowda and K Gopalaiah from JD(S) submitted their resignations to Kumar's secretary as the was not in office.
