Debate: HDK Loses Trust Vote, What Next for the BJP in Karnataka?

BJP MP Rajiv Chandrasekhar talks to BloombergQuint’s Kaushik Vaidya about the next step of the BJP in Karnataka.

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After the Congress-JD(S) led government in Karnataka lost the trust vote in the Vidhana Soudha on Tuesday, 23 July, chief minister HD Kumaraswamy submitted his resignation to Governor Vajubhai Vala,. The resignation was later accepted by the governor, leading to the collapse of the Cong-JD(S) government.

The coalition got 99 votes against the BJP’s 105 in the floor test. Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar announced that the coalition government led by Kumaraswamy has lost the trust vote by six votes.

After the Congress-JD(S) government lost the trust vote in Karnataka on Tuesday, 23 July, BJP’s BS Yeddyurappa is preparing take oath as chief minister for the second time in the 15th Karnataka Assembly.

As Yeddyurappa is set to take over as CM after failing to hold office in 2018, when he held the chair only for six days, BJP MP Rajiv Chandrasekhar talks to BloombergQuint’s Kaushik Vaidya about the next step of the BJP in Karnataka.