 "BJP State President B S Yeddyurappa with his party MLAs, after H D Kumaraswamy lost the vote of confidence in Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru on Tuesday photo:pti")
The protracted trust vote proceedings ended in the Karnataka Assembly on Tuesday evening, with the 14-month-old H D Kumaraswamy-led Janata Dal (Secular) and Congress coalition government losing the confidence motion. There were 105 against and 99 votes for the government, with 20 legislators remaining absent in the 224-member House.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said it would stake claim to form the next government. B S Yeddyurappa (76), the BJP’s state unit chief who is expected to become chief minister for a fourth time, said people were fed up with the Kumaraswamy government and assured people of a development-oriented government. He
