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K'taka: Yeddyurappa survives, BJP govt wins trust vote
 Agencies Posted: Mon Oct 11 2010, 08:41 hrsUpdated: Mon Oct 11 2010, 10:32 hrs
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Bangalore: On Sunday, Governor H R Bhardwaj had directed the Speaker to maintain status quo on the House strength as on October 6 before the rebels withdrew support reducing the Government to a minority.

The Governor has said yesterday in his letter to the Speaker that any decision that emerged in the House from a vitiated proceedings will not be acceptable to him.

However, the Speaker went ahead and signed the disqualification order after firing a strong missive to the Governor contesting his directive to him not to change the configuration of the House and maintain status quo on its strength as on October 6, Assembly secretariat sources said.B S Yeddyurappa government in Karnataka on Monday survived the trust vote in the state Assembly after the confidence vote passed 106 to 0 in favour of the government.

Speaker K G Bopaiah announced in the House that the motion of confidence moved by Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has been passed by voice vote and adjourned the House sine die.

Governor H R Bhardwaj had asked the BJP government to prove their majority in the floor of the House after 16 MLAs withdrew support to the government on October 6.

Earlier, Unfazed by the Governor's direction, Karnataka Assembly Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified 16 rebel MLAs, including 11 from BJP, and barred them from entering the House, preventing them from participating in the trial of strength for a BJP government on Monday.

The Speaker's action came early Monday morning but it remains to be seen what the Governor would do after the Assembly proceedings in case Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa will succeed in getting his confidence motion passed in the truncated House.

The rebel MLAs had withdrawn support to the government on October 6. 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.

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).(indian express)

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citizen: stinking politics of antipeople power hungry politicians! God save the people!

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