1. High political drama as five Congress legislators threaten to resign from Assembly and Council
High political drama prevailed in the State Secretariat on March 27 in Karnataka as five Congress legislators, including three MLAs and two MLCs from Kolar district, threatened to tender their resignations to the membership of the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council, respectively, opposing the candidature of Food and Civil Supplies Minister K.H. Muniyappa’s son-in-law Chikka Peddanna in the Kolar (SC) Lok Sabha constituency. The Congress has not yet announced its candidate from Kolar.
The five legislators reached the Vidhana Soudha on Wednesday noon to tender their resignations. However, all of them put their resignations on hold following assurance from Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, who were not in Bengaluru at the time, that they would come to the city to discuss and resolve the issue by fielding a consensus candidate in the Kolar constituency.
