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Kumaraswamy govt fate hangs in balance after SC ruling on Karnataka

Top court interim order says speaker free to take as much time needed to decide on 15 MLAs' resignation

HD Kumaraswamy
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The Congress-JD (S) government had a total of 117 MLAs in its fold, before 16 of these elected representatives--13 from the Congress, three from JD(S)--resigned about 10 days ago

Aashish AryanArchis Mohan New Delhi
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

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