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Kar‘nataka’ crisis continues as Congress MLAs remain confined to hotel amid poaching fears

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The political crisis in Karnataka intensified on Sunday as Congress confined its MLAs to a resort outside the city for another night after four of them didn’t turn up during the party’s legislature meeting amid claims of poaching by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Karnataka Congress in-charge KC Venugopal will Sunday have a one on one discussions with all the Congress MLAs amid reports that disgruntled Congress MLAs may resign from the party. “KC Venugopal will interact individually with our MLAs regarding parliamentary elections and decision on our future course of action will be taken,” state unit President Dinesh Gundu Rao tweeted.

The Congress party has been accusing the BJP of trying to topple the Congress-JDS coalition government in Karnataka after three of them went incommunicado. The BJP, however, said it has no such intentions and leveled counter allegations of poaching against the ruling coalition. Citing the same fear, the BJP had also sent its MLAs to a luxury resort in Gurugram but they all returned to Bengaluru on Saturday.
“Our MLAs are returning to Bengaluru from Delhi. We will tour the state and analyse the situation of drought. We will not destabilise this govt at any cost. Congress and JDS need not worry,” former Karnataka Chief Minister and senior BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa said.