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President Pratibha Patil has signed on papers on Cabinet recommendation to impose presidents rule in Karnataka.
Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST
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NEW DELHI: President Pratibha Patil has signed on papers on Cabinet recommendation to impose presidents rule in Karnataka.
The Centre on Tuesday decided to bring Karnataka under President's Rule and will seek dissolution of the assembly before Parliament currently in session, a decision that came after the collapse of the week-old BJP government following the break with the JD(S) on Monday.
An early morning meeting of the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here approved Governor Rameshwar Thakur's recommendation for imposition of President's Rule in the state.
"The report of the Governor has been approved by the Cabinet and a recommendation has gone to the President for immediate imposition of President's Rule in Karnataka," Union Information and Broadcasting Minister P R Dasmunsi said.
He said the government will seek the approval of Parliament for imposition of Central rule in Karnataka and dissolution of the state Assembly at the "earliest opportunity."
"We are coming back to Parliament both for approval of President's Rule and dissolution of the House," he said.
The Cabinet had met on Monday night to assess the political situation on the basis of the Governor's report in the wake of the collapse of the BJP-led government following ally JD(S)' refusal to support it.
The Centre's decision to impose President's Rule, the second time in the last two months, brings to an end the political drama that was witnessed in the state on the issue of transfer of power between coalition partners BJP and JD(S).
Karnataka was under Central rule for 34 days from October nine to November 12 after the fall of the JDS-BJP coalition government headed by H D Kumaraswamy and the state Assembly was kept under suspended animation.
The saffron party's B S Yeddyurappa was sworn in as Chief Minister of the first BJP-led government in the South on November 8.
The fresh crisis was triggered by BJP's refusal to accept JD(S)' latest demands to sign a new power-sharing deal alloting plum ministerial portfolios to it.
After JD(S) refused to vote for BJP, Yeddyurappa announced his decision to quit in the House on Monday and submitted his resignation to the Governor, who then recommended imposition of President's Rule in the state.
The cabinet meeting took place early in the morning as the Prime Minister had to leave for Singapore to attend the East Asian and ASEAN summits there.
In the 224-member house, the BJP has a 79 legislators, followed by Congress 64, JD(S) 58, JD(U) five, Vatal Paksha, Kannada Naadu, CPM and RPI one each and independents 13.
