After more than two weeks of political drama in Karnataka, Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy-led 14-month Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition government lost the trust vote on the floor of the Assembly on July 23.
The Congress-JD(S) combine’s tally— those voting in favour of the trust vote— plummeted to 99 legislators in the 225-member Assembly, reducing the government to a minority.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), meanwhile, which was voting against the motion, managed to secure 105 votes.