Congress confident that the MLAs won't be defecting.
The Congress party on Monday decided that all Karnataka MLAs who were kept herded in a resort for the last couple of days will be sent back home. Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president Dinesh Gundu Rao said, " All the MLAs are going back to their constituencies. We had come here to fight the attempt by BJP to destabilize this government. We are very confident that our government is safe, secure and strong."
On Monday, initially, a meeting of Congress legislative party was supposed to take place. But later it was scrapped. Congress leader R Reddy was quoted by ANI as saying, "Last night they called me that there's a meeting today but later they decided not to have any meeting. Most of the MLAs have left the resort. Few who are there will also go back Everything is okay. Because of BJP there was confusion, now it's okay.".
This decision came after reports emerged about brawl between two Congress MLAs in which one leader Anand Singh got injured and had to be hospitalised.
On Sunday, Congress MLA Anand Singh was sent to hospital after an alleged brawl with his party colleague JN Ganesh at Bengaluru's Eagleton Resort, where the lawmakers had been shifted two days ago, ostensibly to keep the BJP from trying to poach them.
The two legislators had an argument after Ganesh allegedly tried to jump ship and join the BJP, reports said. But senior Congress leaders denied the reports. Party MP DK Suresh, who visited Singh in hospital, said the MLA had been admitted after he complained of chest pain.
“I don't know about the fight. Anand Singh is in hospital due to chest pain. There are no injuries or anything. All this is speculation,” MP Suresh said after the visit.
But BJP was quick to seize upon the episode as proof of infighting within Congress. At the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting on Friday, four of 79 party MLAs failed to turn up.
The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee has issued notices to the four MLAs — Ramesh Jarkiholi, B Nagendra, Umesh Jadhav and Mahesh Kumatahalli — who defied the party whip by skipping the meeting. Turn to P4
Congress leader and the state's former chief minister Siddaramaiah had warned the MLAs that their absence fromt he meeting, which had been called to take stock of the party's flock, would be viewed “seriously”.
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