The Karnataka Assembly Speaker told the Supreme Court Thursday that he has no difficulty in hearing the 17 MLAs who were disqualified by his predecessor, K R Ramesh Kumar, and take a "fresh call" on the issue.
Kumar had disqualified these 17 MLAs, leading to the fall of the Congress-JD(S) coalition government headed by the then chief minister H D Kumaraswamy.
Kumaraswamy had resigned after losing a trust vote, which paved the way for the BJP-led government in the state under B S Yediyurappa
Dealing with the arguments advanced by the petitioners that Speaker should not have gone into the motive behind their resignations, Dhavan said, "their entire case is about motive. Why should motive be not examined?"
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