Yeddyurappa Resort Meetings

A day after the Congress moved 76 of its 80 Karnataka legislators to a resort in Bengaluru amid fears of poaching by the opposition BJP to topple the coalition government in the state, the party has served a show cause notice to two of the four MLAs who did not turn up for the Congress Legislature Party or CLP meet on Friday.

The power play between the ruling Congress-JDS coalition and BJP in Karnataka continued on Wednesday, as both sides escalated their war of words and went into an overdrive to keep their legislators together.

BS Yeddyurappa is back in Bangalore without getting back the Karnataka Chief Minister's job he lost in July. His party, the BJP, has signalled that for now, it cannot withdraw Sadananda Gowda, who was picked by Mr Yeddyurappa as his successor when he was forced to resign on account of corruption charges.

A day after the Congress moved 76 of its 80 Karnataka legislators to a resort in Bengaluru amid fears of poaching by the opposition BJP to topple the coalition government in the state, the party has served a show cause notice to two of the four MLAs who did not turn up for the Congress Legislature Party or CLP meet on Friday.

The power play between the ruling Congress-JDS coalition and BJP in Karnataka continued on Wednesday, as both sides escalated their war of words and went into an overdrive to keep their legislators together.

BS Yeddyurappa is back in Bangalore without getting back the Karnataka Chief Minister's job he lost in July. His party, the BJP, has signalled that for now, it cannot withdraw Sadananda Gowda, who was picked by Mr Yeddyurappa as his successor when he was forced to resign on account of corruption charges.