Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru

Bengaluru, May 25: After days of intense political developments, Karnataka on Friday May 25 finally got a government with Congress-JD(S) alliance winning the trust vote in the assembly hands down, even as the opposition BJP led by B S Yeddyurappa staged a walkout.

"The confidence motion has been put to vote and won by voice vote in favour of Kumaraswamy," speaker K R Ramesh Kumar told the legislators present in the lower house.

The over three-hour assembly session saw heated exchange of words and hilarious moments too as leaders of both the Congress-JD(S) combine and the BJP came up with allegations and counter-allegations, going all the way into history when JD(S)-BJP coalition fell apart.

The session began with the unanimous election of Congressman K R Ramesh as the speaker, after BJP's Suresh Kumar withdrew his nomination. Yeddyurappa told the house that the BJP had taken this decision in order to uphold the dignity of the speaker post.

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While Kumaraswamy in his speech attacked the BJP and PM Modi, and spoke of reasons behind breaking the alliance with the BJP before, opposition leader Yeddyurappa hit back at the CM and said he regretted ever joining hands with the father-son (Deve Gowda and Kumaraswamy) duo who had 'betrayed him'. He also addressed Congress legislative party leader and former CM Siddaramaiah and said that JD(S) had 'humiliated' him by fielding G T Devegowda against him in Chamundeshwari. He also told Congress leader D K Shivakumar that some day soon, he would 'regret' forming alliance with the JD(S).

Slamming Kumaraswamy on the issue of waiving farmers' loans over which contradictory statements have appeared in the media in the past two days, Yeddyurappa announced that if the farmers' loans were not waived soon after the government came to power, the BJP would hold Karnataka bandh on Monday May 28.

Announcing the Karnataka bandh, Yeddyurappa along with other BJP leaders dramatically walked out of the assembly.

"All our 104 MLAs walked out of the Assembly after opposition leader B S Yeddyurappa addressed the House to protest against the unholy alliance of the JD-S and Congress," a BJP party leader said.

Thereafter, Kumaraswamy replying to Yeddyurappa's address said that the former BJP CM had no moral right to speak about Siddaramaiah. He also insisted that he was not after power and that he would respond to the people's problems and provide a stable government.

Thereafter, the confidence motion was moved through voice vote, which the JD(S)-Congress alliance won hands down.