Supreme Court orders floor test in Karnataka Assembly tomorrow at 4pm

New Delhi, May 18 The Supreme Court today requested a floor test in the Karnataka Assembly at 4 PM tomorrow, reducing the 15-day window given by the Governor to BJP Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa to to prove majority.

"Let the House decide and the best course would be floor test," a three-judge seat headed by Justice A K Sikri said.

The top court said the Pro tem speaker will take decisions as per the law on the issue of floor test.

The apex court also directed the Karnataka government and the Governor not to name any MLA from the Anglo-Indian people group to participate in the floor test tomorrow.

The bench also asked the newly chose government not to take any major policy decision till it proves majority in the House.

It also ordered authorities including the DGP to guarantee law and order outside the Karnataka Assembly.

The apex court made it clear that it would manage the lawfulness of the Governor's letter welcoming Yeddyurappa to frame the legislature later.

The bench said eventually the inquiry is in regards to dominant part which must be demonstrated in the floor test.

Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the Chief Minister, had looked for sensible time till Monday for the floor test yet the seat, additionally involving Justices S A Bobde and Ashok Bhushan, requested for tomorrow.

The Supreme Court also turned down Yeddyurappa's ask for a secret ballot during the floor test.

During the hearing which went for more than an hour, Yeddyurappa today placed before the apex court letters he had sent to Governor Vajubhai Vala in which he had staked case to frame the legislature in Karnataka.

Yeddyurappa, who was confirmed as the central clergyman of Karnataka yesterday, told the seat that being the single biggest gathering the BJP was the "order of individuals" of the state who have thrown out the Congress.

Rohatgi told the seat that there was no pre-survey partnership between the Congress and JDS and they have shaped an "unholy cooperation" after the races.

The apex court was hearing a request of moved by the Congress-JDS consolidate testing the senator's choice to welcome the BJP to frame government.

"The single biggest gathering (BJP) is the order of individuals of Karnataka who host tossed out the decision get-together. The decision party has significantly less individuals than us. There was no pre-survey union. It (Congress-JD(S)) is an unholy collusion," Rohatgi said.

At the start, the bench asked the Attorney General K Venugopal, "Have you brought those letters (sent to the Governor by Yeddyurappa)?"

Venugopal told the bench that Yeddyurappa was being spoken to by Rohatgi, who set the letters previously the seat.

The bench directed Rohatgi to give the duplicates of the letters to the counsel appearing for Congress-JD(S) combine.

Rohtagi, while reading out the agent part of the May 16 letter sent by Yeddyurappa to the Governor, said the BJP pioneer had said in the letter that the gathering hosts rose as the single biggest get-together in the state and they were wiling to frame the legislature.

He also said that the BJP leader had asked for the representative to welcome the party to from government and had also said that they would give a "steady government" and they have the "support of others".

In a historic pre-dawn hearing, the top court had yesterday cleared the very late obstacle made by the Congress-JD(S) consolidate for the BJP's goal-oriented surge in southern India by making ready for Yeddyurappa to be confirmed as the central clergyman of Karnataka.

A specially constituted three-judge bench after over three hours of hearing, had made it clear that it was not meddling with the Governor's decision to welcome the saffron party to frame government in the state in which BJP with 104 seats has emerged as the single largest party.

During the high-voltage hearing, which kept going from 2.11 AM to 5.28 AM, the best court had made it clear that the swearing-in and government arrangement would be liable to the final outcome of the case.

The court had directed the Centre to place before it two communications sent by Yeddyurappa to the Governor in which he had staked case to form government, saying their perusal was necessary to decide the case.