New Delhi: With the BJP having failed to induce the support of the requisite number of legislators from the Congress or Janata Dal (Secular), Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa chose not to subject himself to a floor test in the Karnataka assembly and instead announced his resignation.
Though Yeddyurappa moved the motion seeking the confidence of the house when the special session of the assembly started at 4 pm today, his remarks made it clear that he had been unable to split the opposition. “I had hoped they would have voted for us on the basis of their conscience but this was not to be … I am resigning as chief minister and going immediately to Raj Bhavan to inform the governor of my decision”, he said at the end and then promptly walked out of the Vidhan Soudha.