Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa will face the trial of strength in the state Assembly on Monday under a surcharged atmosphere triggered off by disqualification of 16 rebel MLAs, including 11 BJP men, by the Speaker.
A beleaguered Yeddyurappa, whose government has been reduced to a minority following withdrawal of support by 19 MLAs-- 14 BJP and five independents--will be moving a one-line motion seeking the confidence of the House under a directive from Governor H R Bhardwaj.
Speaker K G Bopaiah signed the disqualification order last night after firing a strong missive to Governor H R Bhardwaj contesting his directive to him not to change the configuration of the House and maintain status quo on its strength as on October six, Assembly secretariat sources said.
The rebel MLAs had withdrawn support to the government on October six.
In his order, Bopaiah said these 16 MLAs have been disqualified under the provision of the anti-defection law as envisaged in the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution.
Those BJP MLAs who were disqualified are: 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 reduces to 106 from 117 and the opposition Congress and JDS have a combined strength of 101 (Congress 73 and JDS 28).
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