Karnataka CM is confident of winning the trust vote

Team Udayavani, May 25, 2018, 9:36 AM IST

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Thursday communicated certainty about winning the trust vote on Friday and demonstrating that his JD(S)-Congress coalition government has the majority in the new Assembly. 

“I am certain of winning the trust vote on the Assembly floor as we have the numbers to support us,” Kumaraswamy told correspondents here, a day after he took oath before the state as the new Chief Minister.
 
Congress state unit President G. Parameshwara took promise as the Deputy Chief Minister. 

As coordinated by Governor Vajubhai Vala on May 19 in the wake of welcoming him to form the government, Kumaraswamy will move the certainty movement in the Assembly at 12.15 p.m. what’s more, request that the new Speaker lead the floor test. 

With a consolidated quality of 117 officials in the 225-part Assembly, including 37 of the JD-S, 78 of the Congress and two different MLAs, Kumaraswamy has six more than the 111 required for dominant part, excluding the Speaker. Three seats are empty.

The BJP, which rose as the single biggest party with 104 seats in the May 12 elections, missed the mark regarding the midway stamp to spare its 3-day government on May 19, bringing about its Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa leaving before the floor test. 

As chose by the coalition accomplices, the JD-S will name one of its senior legislator to the Deputy Speaker’s post after the Speaker’s election. 

Every one of the officials of both the decision parties keep on staying at star lodgings in the city under the watch of their individual pioneers till Kumaraswamy wins the trial of strenght. 

“We have requested that all our MLAs remain together in the city for one more day to guarantee their essence in the Assembly to maintain a strategic distance from cross-voting or abstention amid trust vote on the certainty movement,” a Congress official said. 

Both the parties have issued whips to their separate officials to vote for the movement when put to vote. 

Kumaraswamy intends to grow his Ministry one week from now after the Congress presents the names for its portion of 21 Cabinet posts and he chooses 11 of his officials to fill the JD-S quantity of Cabinet posts.