The Hindu
BANGALORE: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday claimed that the trust vote won by its Government was subject to the outcome of the Karnataka High Court's verdict only in the case relating to disqualification of five independents and not the one on disqualification of 11 rebel MLAs, which will now be heard by a third judge following the split verdict given by Chief Justice J.S. Khehar and Justice N. Kumar.
Pointing out that the party government had won the trust vote by a margin of six votes, it maintained that the Government is safe even if the case relating to disqualification of five independents went against it.
Party advocate Satya Pal Jain told presspersons here that the two judges, who delivered their verdict on the petitions challenging the disqualification of 11 rebel MLAs, had agreed on three issues and differed only on one, but prominent issue of whether the MLAs' action had amounted to voluntarily giving up the party membership.
Pointing out that the matter relating to disqualification of 11 MLAs would now be looked into by a third judge, he maintained that the third judge would give his verdict only on the fourth issue of whether the MLAs' action would amount to voluntarily giving up the party membership. ...
