Congress: sure about Yeddyurappa's resign before floor test

Bengaluru, May 19 Karnataka Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar on Saturday communicated certainty that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would fall flat the floor test in the state get together and chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa would need to resign as chief minister.

"I am sure he will resign before the trust vote," Shivakumar, the former state bureau serve, said.

Discussing the missing Congress MLAs, Shivakumar informed that Pratap Gowda Patil has achieved the state assembly and will vote in favor of the party after swearing-in.

"Our leader Pratap Gowda Patil has achieved the assembly. He will guarantee as a MLA then he will vote in favor of the Congress. He won't deceive the party," he said.

Earlier in the day, the two missing Karnataka Congress MLAs were located at a Bengaluru hotel with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA G. Somasekhar Reddy, as per sources.

The two MLAs - Anand Singh and Pratap Gowda Patil - did not show up in the state assembly for vow taking function.

The floor test is slated to happen today at 4 pm in Karnataka's Vidhana Soudha.

Both the Congress in union with the JD(S) and the BJP have guaranteed to have the straightforward greater part in the house that is 111 for the now adequately 221-part gathering.

Earlier, the Karnataka gathering was of 224 individuals, however it lessened by three seats as surveying for the two seats did not happen on May 12 and one part has been chosen from two seats.

On Friday, Vala selected Bopaiah as expert tem speaker in front of floor test in the state gathering, breaking the tradition of naming the senior-most legislator.

Recently, while hearing an appeal to of the Congress-JD(S) organization together, the Supreme Court diminished the time given by the Governor to the BJP to demonstrate straightforward greater part in the house and requested that the gathering hold the put stock in vote on Saturday at 4 pm.

The decision was taken after the best court heard the contentions for and against the appeal to documented by the Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) after Governor Vala's welcome to the BJP to frame the government in the state.

The BJP is the single-largest party in the state assembly with 104 MLAs, however, they are still short of the simple majority mark of 111 by seven MLAs whereas the Congress alliance has 117 MLAs, including two Independent officials.