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More Cong. MLAs arrive in Bangalore

By Our Special Correspondent

Some of the Congress MLAs from Maharashtra relaxing at a resort on the outskirts of Bangalore on Friday. — PTI

BANGALORE JUNE 7. It is the emigre Government of Maharashtra with Bangalore as the capital. Most of the 70 or so Congress MLAs of the neighbouring State, including seven Ministers, have taken refuge at a holiday resort near here to thwart what they allege as the design of the Shiv Sena-BJP Opposition to topple the Vilasrao Deshmukh Government.

The number of MLAs who have been brought here has touched 60 with some more arriving here today.

Besides the Cooperation Minister, D.K. Shivakumar, and the Tourism Minister, Roshan Baig, who are liaising with them, the Home Minister, Mallikarjun Kharge, also met the MLAs.

The Minister of State for Power, Veerakumar Patil, who is from Belgaum district and speaks Marathi, is camping at the holiday resort near Nelamangala.

Though the police are guarding the place, news and television journalists had no problems in meeting the legislators. Some of the MLAs jocularly said they were in Bangalore for sightseeing. It has been planned to take them to some of the software centres in the City.

Some of the legislators are planning to visit Tirupati and Mysore. In fact, some of them visited the Yediyur Siddalingeshwara Kshetra near Kunigal today.

The legislators have plenty of time for relaxation at the resort with good food and entertainment.

It is the second time that Karnataka is playing host to legislators from a neighbouring State.

In 1984, the Janata Government of Ramakrishna Hegde saved the Telugu Desam MLAs of Andhra Pradesh from being won over by a breakaway faction.

The then Governor of Andhra Pradesh, Ramlal, dismissed the Government of N.T. Rama Rao and installed his deputy, Nadendla Bhaskar Rao, as Chief Minister.

Rama Rao had his MLAs flown to Mysore to prevent Bhaskar Rao from proving his majority in the State Assembly.

The TDP MLAs had stayed at a hotel in Yadavagiri in Mysore.

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