Bengaluru: Yeddyurappa’s BJP government won the confidence vote yesterday in the Karnataka Assembly. A voice vote was held. Yeddyurappa was sworn as CM of Karnataka in last Friday. Meanwhile, Speaker K.R. Rameshkumar resigns.
The Speaker’s disqualification of 17 rebel MLAs has reduced the strength of the 225-member assembly to 208. With this, the support of the 105 majorities was enough for an absolute majority. 105 It was not difficult for the BJP, which had the support of its members and an independent, to prove its majority.
