Published 16:03 IST, November 3rd 2019

Congress protests in Bengaluru over alleged video of BS Yediyurappa

The Congress workers staged a protest in Bengaluru on Sunday over an alleged video of Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa pertaining to resignations of MLAs

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Congress workers std a protest in Bengaluru on Sunday over an alleged video of Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa pertaining to resignations of MLAs and fall of Congress-JDS government in State. workers protested by wearing masks of several BJP leers. 

Serious allegations on Yediyurappa by Congress

Congress released a tape released alleging that Karnataka CM and BJP chief BS Yediyurappa is confessing about Operation Kamala, almost three months after HD Kumaraswamy-led coalition Government of Karnataka lost trust vote in Vidhan Soudha. Taking to Twitter, Karnataka Presh Congress Committee chief Dinesh Gundu Rao alleged that BJP led ''immoral defection of Congress MLA". He claimed that tape is proof that BJP President Amit Shah took care of defected MLA for 2.5 months. This comes ahe of by-polls to 15 out of 17 seats represented by disqualified MLAs, whose resignation and absence from trust vote le to fall of Congress-JD(S) coalition government, and me way for BJP to come to power, will be held on December 5.

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Karnataka Floor test

After days of suspense and reports of an internal tussle within Congress and JD(S) MLAs in erstwhile Karnataka Government, coalition finally lost trust vote in floor test on July 23. Kumaraswamy-led Cong-JD(S) coalition government fell 14 months after it came to power. In Karnataka Assembly elections of 2018, Congress which won 78 seats sealed a deal with JD(S) which h bagged 37 seats, against BJP which emerged as a single largest party with 104 seats. Before  floor test, 15 rebel MLAs h quit from Assembly in June.

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