Karnataka political crisis: Congress leader DK Shivakumar to meet rebel MLAs in Mumbai on Wednesday

A meeting of Congress leaders is underway in Bengaluru. KC Venugopal, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Siddaramaiah, Dinesh Gundu Rao, Mallikarjun Kharge, Eshwar Khandre and Zameer Ahmad among other Congress leaders are present in the meeting.

BJP in Karnataka has decided to stage a dharna on Wednesday, demanding the resignation of chief minister HD Kumaraswamy, who it claimed, has lost majority after 14 MLAs of the ruling Congress-JD(S) quit. Read

A group of rebel MLAs from the ruling Congress-JD(S) coalition in Karnataka has returned to Mumbai from Satara in western Maharashtra, sources said.

Karnataka assembly speaker KR Ramesh Kumar on Tuesday said the resignation letters of eight out of 13 MLAs of the ruling coalition were not in the prescribed format and he has asked the legislators to submit them properly.

Congress Rajya Sabha MPs from Karnataka on Tuesday accused the BJP of "destabilising" the state's coalition government as they raised the pitch for a debate on the crisis in the Upper House of Parliament. Read

12 Congress-JDS legislators are at Mumbai's Renaissance Hotel. They stayed at Corinthians Resort and Club at Kondwa on Pune-Satara road. They had booked a private flight from Pune to Goa. However there was a problem of visibility during late hours on Monday and there was no landing after 12am at Goa. Today they came by a private flight from Pune to Mumbai.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged IMA group ponzi scam, on Tuesday served a notice to Congress MLA Roshan Baig, asking him to appear before it on Thursday. This comes hours after the Shivajinagar MLA resigned from the assembly.