Bengaluru/Hyderabad: The BS Yeddyurappa-led BJP government in Karnataka has been asked by the Supreme Court to take floor test tomorrow at 4 pm. The court today resumed hearing a petition filed by Congress- Janata Dal Secular (JDS) combine challenging Karnataka Governor's controversial invitation to the BJP's BS Yeddyurappa to become chief minister, the Congress and the JDS in Karnataka moved their lawmakers from Bengaluru to Hyderabad. In a move that came well past midnight,
the lawmakers were taken in bus to the Telangana capital, 569 km from Bengaluru. "The central government was kind enough to refuse all permission for flights so taking the road," former minister DK Shivakumar told NDTV during the overnight journey. The Congress and JDS lawmakers spent Thursday in two different hotels in Bengaluru. While the Congress flock was at Eagleton Resorts, the JDS leaders were at Shangrila Hotel. The move to sequester the the 100-odd lawmakers of Congress-JDS was taken to prevent the BJP from luring them as soon as it became clear that Governor Vajubhai Vala was going to invite BS Yeddyurappa to form government. The Congress-JDS combine responded by taking the battle to the Supreme Court that held a rare overnight hearing and took
up the case again today at 10:30 this morning.Here are the LIVE updates on Karnataka politics after election results:
May 19, 2018 00:10 (IST)
HD Kumaraswamy along with other JDS MLAs board a flight to Bengaluru ahead of floor test in Karnataka assembly today.
May 18, 2018 23:20 (IST)
Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee files complaint against Janardhan Reddy, linked to BJP, for offering hundreds of crore rupees and a minister portfolio to Raichur rural MLA Basvanagowda Daddal over telephone.
May 18, 2018 22:06 (IST)
Supreme Court agrees to hear Congress petition against pro-tem speaker tomorrow at 10.30 am in court number 6.
May 18, 2018 21:29 (IST)
JDS' HD Kumaraswamy says, "Two MLAs have been hijacked by our BJP friends. But, I am certain that they will come back to us."
May 18, 2018 20:36 (IST)
"MLAs are with us. Whatever misuse they had to do they have done. Supreme Court has also given them a good scolding not verbally but in terms of action, it is a different matter that the people of BJP have a thick skin": Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad
May 18, 2018 20:30 (IST)
Congress moves Supreme Court seeking urgent hearing on the appointment of KG Bopaiah as pro-tem speaker.
May 18, 2018 19:42 (IST)
JDS leader Saravana: "His name is Devanand Chavan, MLA from Nagathan, he is with us. BJP leaders are misleading about him that he is supporting BJP."
May 18, 2018 19:22 (IST)
A jet aircraft with 160 seats and 12 VIP seats has been hired at a cost of Rs 16,000 per seat.
May 18, 2018 19:07 (IST)
Raising questions over the Governor's move to appoint BJP MLA K G Bopaiah as the pro tem speaker, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said that the Governor should have had appointed the senior most MLA from the current assembly as the pro tem speaker as per constitutional conventions. According to the Congress, its eight-time MLA R V Deshpande is the senior most lawmaker in the assembly.