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Kumaraswamy and his son Nikhil have spoken to Kishor at least once on the phone and are likely to meet him in person very soon

The specificity linked to the bypolls in which sitting MLAs have changed parties will play a bigger role, say analystsFielded on BJP tickets, the defectors willing to splurge their way to victory are facing an uphill task since rivals have pockets just as deep

Seventeen rebel Congress-JD(S) legislators had moved the apex court challenging their disqualification by the then assembly speaker in JulyThe legislators had resigned amid growing dissent, toppling the previous Congress-JD(S) rule in July

Ramesh Kumar and other leaders had colluded with the BJP to engineer the defeat of the seven time MP and former central minister for railways: Senior Congress leader KH MuniyappaThe Congress had constituted a fact finding committee to ascertain the reasons for its poor show in the Lok Sabha polls

Siddaramaiah said that it was Deve Gowda, HD Kumaraswamy and HD Revanna who had caused the Congress-JD(S) alliance to collapse by not taking everyone into confidenceYediyurappa, meanwhile, is looking to contain the growing dissent that threatens to rock the one-month-old government

Yeddyurappa has been meeting his party legislators and other senior leaders to draw up the next course of actionYeddyurappa, the otherwise grim faced 76-year-old, has been all smiles at the possibility of becoming the chief minister of Karnataka for the fourth time

The Congress and the JD(S) can now focus on rebuilding their respective outfitsThe Congress could start its rebuilding exercise from Karnataka — a state that helped resurrect the political fortunes of late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and the grand old party in the late 1970s

CM Kumaraswamy makes a last-ditch attempt to save coalition, asks rebel MLAs to return for floor testTroubles for Karnataka can continue even if BJP manages to form the next govt

The allegations come at a time when at least 16 coalition legislators have been lodged in a Mumbai hotel purportedly on behest of the BJPThe Congress, the JD(S) and the BJP have lodged their legislators in plush resorts around Bengaluru to shield them from poaching attempts by rivals

Fifteen rebel legislators cannot be compelled to attend the ongoing monsoon session, says Supreme CourtGiving rebels the choice to attend the session, including the trust vote, puts the coalition on the back foot in the developing political crisis in Karnataka