Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Sunday asked her lone lawmaker in Karnataka to support the ruling coalition of Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) in the trust vote scheduled for Monday . The announcement came hours after N Mahesh, the BSP legislator, said he had been asked to skip the vote by the party. “BSP national president Mayawati has directed the Karnataka BSP MLA to vote in support of Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy’s government,” read a post on Mayawati’s official Twitter handle. On Friday, Karnataka Assembly missed the second deadline for the HD Kumaraswamy government’s trust vote that Governor Vajubhai Vala had set for the ruling coalition. The Kumaraswamy government has been rocked by 16 MLAs resigning in the last two weeks - 13 from the Congress and three from the JD(S) .

Source: Hindustan Times July 21, 2019 16:13 UTC