MASSIVE: Karnataka Governor invites BJP's BS Yeddyurappa to take oath and form Karnataka government

Confirming Republic TV's exclusive newsbreak on Wednesday evening, the  Governor of Karnataka has invited BJP's BS Yeddyurappa to take oath as chief minister of the state at 9:30 am at Raj Bhavan on Thursday.

Yeddyurappa alone with take the oath, not along with 10 other MLAs that sources had said would be sworn in with him.

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The official announcement came just a short while after the Congress herded 79 MLAs (as per Dinesh Gundu Rao) into a bus and sent them on their way to the same Eagleton Resort on Bengaluru's outskirts where the party's Gujarat MLAs had been sent during the matter of the election of Ahmed Patel to the Rajya Sabha in 2017.

The Governor's decision comes as a massive blow to the Congress-JD(S) alliance which has claimed to have 117 MLAs (a majority) and has alleged that the BJP has attempted to bribe its lawmakers with enormous sums of money (Kumaraswamy said Rs 100 crore) and cabinet berths. 

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The Congress had said that its MLAs and MPs, along with those of the JD(S), would hold a Dharna outside the Raj Bhavan if they weren't invited to form a government. The two sets of parties visited the Governor again on Wednesday to stake a claim to forming the government. 

(The Karnataka BJP tweeted this and deleted it shortly after)

The BJP had emerged the largest-single party in the Karnataka elections results that were declared on Tuesday but its 104 seat total had fallen short of crossing the half-way mark. The Congress had won 78 seats and the JD(S), 37 seats. The second-largest party offered its unconditional support to the JD(S) which would lead the Karnataka government.