Summary:
The ruling coalition partners JD-S-Congress and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have been trading charges of poaching each others’ legislators for the past few days. “Even if two MLAs withdraw their support, we (coalition) have the majority,” Kumaraswamy said on Tuesday. We are in touch with all our (Janata Dal-Secular and Congress) legislators and have their support,” he told the media here. Some of the Congress legislators reportedly in Mumbai were also in touch with him, the Chief Minister asserted, though he did not name them. Kumaraswamy on Wednesday said there was no threat to his government..