With the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruling that the 15 rebel Members of Legislative Assembly (MLA) of the Congress-Janta Dal (Secular) government cannot be forced to take part in Assembly proceedings, the state government led by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy looked all set to fall.
In its interim order on Wednesday, though the three-judge bench led by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said that legislative assembly Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar was free to decide on the resignation of the 15 MLAs within a time-frame he considered appropriate, the rider that these MLAs should not be forced to take part