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THE TIMES OF INDIA | JUL 12, 2019, 08:56:00 IST

Karnataka crisis live updates: Speaker to submit report in Supreme Court today

The Supreme Court will hear the petition of rebel lawmakers against assembly speaker for not accepting
resignations. Despite the apex court urging him to take a decision "forthwith" on the resignations of 10
rebel MLAs, speaker KR Ramesh on Thursday reserved his decision, insisting he will take a final call only
after hearing all sides. Now a lot depends on the SC's observations. Stay with TOI for all the latest
updates.

08:40 (IST), JUL 12

Karnataka speaker KR Ramesh Kumar has given appointment for 4pm to three of the five MLAs whose
resignations were in the prescribed format.

08:18 (IST), JUL 12

The political crisis in Karnataka entered its sixth day on Thursday, with the Supreme Court seeking a
decision on the resignations of rebel MLAs by the day-end and speaker KR Ramesh Kumar reserving his
say, declaring he was not “under the obligations of anyone” and that he “did not want to commit
mistakes”.

08:18 (IST), JUL 12

Amid the political uncertainty, the monsoon session of the assembly begins on Friday. BJP has decided to
raise the issue of the resignations after the obituary references, saying the Kumaraswamy government
has lost its majority.

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08:18 (IST), JUL 12

Even as the ball remains in the speaker’s court on the fate of the rebel MLAs — and that of the
government — a lot depends on how the Supreme court reacts to Kumar wanting to give himself more
time to decide whether the MLAs’ resignations are voluntary and should be accepted.

08:18 (IST), JUL 12

Hearing the MLAs’ plea in the morning, the court set 6pm as the deadline for the legislators to meet the
speaker and submit their resignations in the prescribed format. It gave Kumar time till 10am Friday,
when the petitions come up for hearing, to decide on the resignations.

08:17 (IST), JUL 12

“The apex court has said ‘to take decision forthwith’. I had the proceedings of MLAs’ meeting and of
them submitting their resignations videographed. I will give it to the Supreme court on Friday. I’ve asked
some questions to the MLAs and some said they faced hurdles when they came here. It will take the
entire night for me to think on all these,” he told reporters after a 30-minute meeting with 11 rebel MLAs
in his chamber.

08:17 (IST), JUL 12

Dismissing murmurs that he was delaying a decision, Kumar said: “I’m delaying because I love this land.
I’m not acting in haste. I’m not under anybody’s obligation except to the people of the state.”

08:17 (IST), JUL 12

Kumar had moved Supreme Court against its order soon after, but the bench headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi
said it would take up the plea on Friday.

08:16 (IST), JUL 12

The political crisis in Karnataka entered its sixth day on Thursday, with the Supreme Court seeking a
decision on the resignations of rebel MLAs by the day-end and speaker KR Ramesh Kumar reserving his
say, declaring he was not “under the obligations of anyone” and that he “did not want to commit
mistakes”.

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