Karnataka: HD Kumaraswamy wins trust vote amid walk out by BJP from the House

BENGALURU: The Kumaraswamy led JD(S)-Congress government passed the last mile of the test with the trust vote moved by chief minister H D Kumaraswamy being carried through amid a walk out by the BJP.

The trust vote was approved by voice vote with Kumaraswamy winning it unanimously. The floor test was conducted by newly elected speaker K R Ramesh Kumar. He was unanimously elected after the BJP withdrew the nomination of its senior MLA S Suresh Kumar.

During the two-hour debate on the trust vote, Kumaraswamy thanked Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mallikarjun M Kharge, who he said were the first to call him to join hands. He said his father former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda had decided to disown him, if he planned to ally with the BJP.

Yeddyurappa, replying to Kumaraswamy's speech on the trust vote, set Friday evening as the deadline for the CM to waive off farms loans in nationalised and cooperative banks as promised in the JD(S) poll manifesto. Yeddyurappa threatened the BJP would organise a Karnataka bandh on May 28 if it was not done.