Yeddyurappa wins his 4th trust vote
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government led by Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa on Thursday won trust vote in the Karnataka Assembly amid walkout by Congress and boycott by Janatha Dal (Secular).
The Yedyurappa government won by 119 votes in favor and none against in the assembly.
?This House expresses confidence in the ministry led by me,? said Yeddyurappa in a one-line resolution.
The BJP Legislature decided to go for a confidence vote to prove its strength amid speculations by the opposition. Law Minister S. Suresh Kumar pressed for division of votes.
This is the fourth time Yeddyurappa went for a trust vote in the assembly since his tenure started in 2008.
The move comes after the Centre rejected Governor HR Bhardwaj?s report that cited a ?constitutional breakdown? in the state. The Centre also ruled out the possibility of establishing President’s Rule in Karnataka advised by Bhardwaj.
In the past weeks there was no let-up in the battle between Yeddyurappa and Bhardwaj with the CM warning of a massive agitation against the Guv if he did not allow the assembly session to start on June 2.
Yeddyurappa had paraded his MLAs before the President in New Delhi to show his strength and demanded removal of Bhardwaj after the governor advised President’s rule in the state.
The BJP in Karnataka, beefed by the renewed backing of 16 legislators who had earlier rebelled, slammed the governor?s call for President?s rule in Karnataka as illegal, unconstitutional and “a murder of democracy.”
The governor had recommended President?s rule citing a constitutional breakdown in the state and emboldened by a Supreme Court verdict overturning the suspensions of the 16 MLAs last year by the assembly speaker.
Bhardwaj alleged that B S Yeddyurappa and Speaker K G Bopaiah misused the constitutional provisions to win trust vote in October last year.
A total of 16 MLAs — five independents and 11 from the BJP who had rebelled against the CM — were suspended by Speaker K G Bopaiah on Oct 11 last year, hours before B S Yeddyurappa’s trust vote, allowing him to win by a wafer-thin margin.
But all the MLAs in a volte-face backed Yeddyurappa two weeks ago.
