In a scathing indictment of Karnataka governor Vajubhai Bala’s decision to accord the BJP the luxury of 14 days to prove its majority in the Karnataka assembly, the Supreme Court has asked BS Yeddyurappa, hastily sworn in on Thursday morning to prove its majority at 4 pm Saturday.
A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court resumed hearing the Congress petition challenging Governor Vajubhai Vala’s controversial decision to invite the BJP to form government on Friday and rejected the plea of Centre’s counsel Mukul Rohatgi to hold the floor test on Monday.
Abhishek Manu Singhvi, representing the Congress, and Kapil Sibal, representing the JD(S) ,stressed on and expressed willingness for an urgent floor test. Rohatgi representing Yeddyurappa however claimed that one day was not enough and even went to the extent of saying that even Congress MLAs would need more time.
The apex court also asked the BS Yeddyurappa government not to take any major policy decision till the floor test is over. The court also disallowed the nomination of an Anglo Indian MLA by Yeddyurappa just hours after he was sworn in yesterday.
The hearing on the larger issue of whether governor Bala was right in inviting the BJP to form the government in the first place will continue in the coming days.
Yeddyurappa was sworn as chief minister on Thursday after the Supreme Court, in a dramatic post-midnight hearing, declined to stop him from taking charge but made it clear that his survival in the state’s top post would depend on their final verdict.