Karnataka Election result 2018: Newly-elected JD(S) and Congress MLAs from Karnataka, who had been camping here in two hotels to avoid any poaching bids, left for Bengaluru for the crucial floor test in the state assembly today. Though the legislators were prepared to stay in the city hotels for a few days, they all left on Friday night by road as the Supreme Court ordered that a floor test be held in the Karnataka Assembly at 4 PM today to confirm whether newly-appointed BJP Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa enjoys a majority in the state.
"All the legislators left for Bengaluru by road at 10 pm," Vamshi Chand Reddy, Congress MLA in Telanagana, said.
The political battle over Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader B S Yeddyurappa taking oath as Karnataka Chief Minister intensified on Friday with both the Congress and BJP accusing each other of 'murdering democracy. Just a day before BJP's BS Yeddyurappa faces the Supreme Court-ordered floor test in the Karnataka Assembly, the Congress released an audio tape that the party claims shows how the BJP was trying to lure its legislators to support Chief Minister Yeddyurappa in the Karnataka Assembly. In this audio clip, the Congress said Janardhana
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