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 and fall of the Congress-JDS government in the State. The workers protested by wearing masks of several BJP leaders. 

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 the HD Kumaraswamy-led coalition Government of Karnataka lost the trust vote in the Vidhan Soudha. Taking to Twitter, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee chief Dinesh Gundu Rao alleged that BJP led the ''immoral defection of Congress MLA". He claimed that the tape is proof that BJP President Amit Shah took care of the defected MLA for 2.5 months. This comes ahead of by-polls to 15 out of 17 seats represented by the disqualified MLAs, whose resignation and absence from trust vote lead to the fall of Congress-JD(S) coalition government, and made 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 the Congress and JD(S) MLAs in the erstwhile Karnataka Government, the coalition finally lost the trust vote in the floor test on July 23. The Kumaraswamy-led Cong-JD(S) coalition government fell 14 months after it came to power. In the Karnataka Assembly elections of 2018, Congress which won 78 seats sealed a deal with JD(S) which had bagged 37 seats, against BJP which emerged as a single largest party with 104 seats. Before the floor test, 15 rebel MLAs had quit from the Assembly in June.

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