 "Bengaluru: Karnataka assembly speaker KR Ramesh Kumar during the assembly session at Vidhana Soudha. Photo: PTI")
A day after it came to power in Karnataka, the BJP is contemplating bringing a no-confidence motion against assembly Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar, if he does not voluntarily vacate the post, party sources said Saturday.
The message has been discreetly conveyed to Kumar to give up the post, which is conventionally held by a member from the ruling party, the sources said, ahead of Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa moving the confidence motion in the assembly on Monday to prove his majority.
"We will move the no-confidence motion against the Speaker if he himself does not resign," a senior state BJP
