Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Jul 18: By asserting that chief minister, Kumaraswamy, would be moving trust vote on Thursday and set into motion discussions on it, rural development and panchayat raj minister, Krishna Byregowda, indicated that the government will not postpone trust vote date. He told reporters that the proceedings advisory committee has fixed date for the motion and hence the date cannot be changed. However, he did not clarify as to how many days the debate on the motion would continue.

In the meantime, leader of the Congress legislature party, Siddaramaiah, has issued whip to the party legislators once again, although the Supreme Court has clarified that the legislators cannot be compelled to take part in assembly proceedings. The whip says that during the assembly session between July 18 and 26, trust vote would be moved by the government, and therefore, the legislators have to be present compulsorily and cast votes in favour of the motion. If they fail to do so, they have been warned of action under anti defection law.

Rebel MLAs

In the meantime, some 'missing' complaints were filed about dissident legislators. The city (rural)district Congress committee has complained to the assembly speaker that Hoskote MLA, M T B Nagaraj, is missing, and asked him to find out his whereabouts. District Congress president, Munishamappa and Hoskote Congress leaders met the speaker on Wednesday afternoon and filed complaint.

Complaints were also filed in police stations about Yeshwantpur MLA, S T Somashekhar, and K R Pura MLA, Byrathi Basavaraj, going missing, and asking the police to find them out.

Chikkaballapur Congress district president, K N Keshava Reddy, complained to the town police station about MLA, Dr K Sudhakar, going missing. He said there is suspicion that their MLA would have been abducted. Uttara Kannada district Congress president, Bheemanna Naik filed complaint in the office of the deputy superintendent of police at Sirsi, saying that Yallapur MLA, Shivaram Hebbar, is missing and expressing the doubt that he would have been kept in illegal confinement.