arnataka News – Anti-defection law abuse in Karnataka – B S Yeddyurappa won a trust vote in the Assembly after the Speaker disqualified 16 rebel MLAs

Karnataka News: Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, the Anti-defection law has been abuse in Karnataka. The Union Home Ministry is said to be concerned over developments in Karnataka and has taken serious note of them. Highly placed many sources said the abuse of the anti-defection law was more so in the case of disqualification of independents. Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, the Anti-defection law does not apply to independents and, therefore, there is no question of their disqualification and B S Yeddyurappa won a trust vote in the Assembly after the Speaker disqualified 16 rebel MLAs. You can also visit kannada prabha, kannadaprabha, deccan herald online for karnataka government latest news about this Karnataka crisis.

The sources were commenting on Karnataka Assembly Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualifying 16 rebel MLAs ahead of the trust vote. The BJP government in Karnataka survived its hard challenge today as Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa won a trust vote in the Assembly after the Speaker disqualified 16 rebel MLAs. Karnataka Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified 11 BJP and five Independent MLAs from the Karnataka Assembly under anti-defection Act in response toYeddyurappa’s petition. The JDS president HD Kumaraswami termed the trust vote unconstitutional and said he, along with 118 MLAs, are going to approcah the Governor.

The rebel MLAs had withdrawn support to the government on October 6, 2010. The BJP MLAs who have been disqualified include Balachandra Jarkiholi, Belur Gopala Krishna, Anand Asnotikar, Dr Sarvabowma Bagali, V Nagaraju, Raje Kage, Y Sampangi, Nanjundaswamy, S K Bellubbi, H S Shankara Lingegowda and Shivanagouda Naik.

Former ministers Venkataramanappa, Shivaraj Tangadagi, Goolihatti Sekhar and M P Narendraswamy and independent MLAs have also been disqualified. With this action, Bopaiah has brought down the strength in the 224-member Assembly to 208. The ruling party strength has been reduces to 106 from 117 and the opposition Congress and JDS have a combined strength of 101 (Congress 73 and JDS 28).