| The ministers are deputy chief minister Siddaramaiah and ministers H C Mahadevappa and Satish Jharkhihole. |
| Meanwhile, the legislative assembly speaker Krishna has accepted the Janata Dal party resolution of electing M P Prakash as Janata Dal legislative party [JD(S)LP] leader. |
| There has been a frenetic pace of activity across all the major parties in the state. While the Janata Dal is busy watching Congress' moves, a faction in the Congress is busy wooing Siddaramaiah and BJP leader B S Yediyurappa is trying to get the MLAs to join hands with Deve Gowda's JD(S) to form government. |
| Siddaramaiah, who was ousted as JD(S) legislature party leader and replaced by senior JD(S) leader M P Prakash on Thursday, had refused to step down, maintaining that the JD(S) legislative party (JDSLP) meet convened by the Deve Gowda camp was 'illegal'. |
| "I hope the chief minister will not take such a decision," Siddaramaiah said in the morning, after he deferred the JD(S)LP meet called by him for lack of a quorum on Thursday, when he was asked by reporters about the Gowda camp's moves to get him sacked. |
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