Mumbai police allow Karnataka counterparts to meet 'sick' MLA
Mumbai: Mumbai police Friday allowed Karnataka police officials to meet Congress MLA Shreemant Patil, who has been admitted in a state-run hospital here.
The police officials from the southern state recorded Patil's statement, an official said.
The development came amid reports that Patil wrote to Karnataka Assembly Speaker K R Ramesh, denying that he was kidnapped by the BJP.
"I went to Chennai for personal work and felt chest pain. Visited hospital and on doctor's suggestion I came to Mumbai and got admitted here. I was not kidnapped by BJP," Patil wrote in an email to Ramesh, sources said.
Mumbai police provided security to Patil, the legislator from Kagwad in Belgaum district, who arrived here Thursday and was hospitalised after he complained of chest pain.
He was first admitted in a private hospital and later shifted to state-run St George Hospital in South Mumbai, the official said.
"We have provided security to the MLA and his statement was recorded," an official said.
The Congress had alleged Patil had been "kidnapped" as part of efforts to "topple" the coalition government in the southern state.
Congress leader and Karnataka minister D K Shivakumar had said they would produce documents to show Patil was forcibly admitted to the hospital to skip the trust vote in the Assembly.
Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala has set 1.30 pm on Friday as the deadline for Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy to provide his majority on the floor of the house.
According to sources, 15 rebel MLAs from the Congress and JD (S) are camping at a luxury hotel in Mumbai.
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Vijay unable to prove majority, not invited for CM oath ceremony: Sources
Chennai: Actor-politician Vijay has reportedly not been invited to take oath as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu after failing to demonstrate support from the required number of MLAs, sources in Raj Bhavan said.
According to media reports that quoted sources in the office of R.N. Ravi Arlekar, Vijay could not prove the backing of 118 legislators, the majority mark in the 234-member Tamil Nadu Assembly.
Despite last-minute efforts to secure support from the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazagam (AMMK), and an IUML legislator, Vijay reportedly managed support from only 116 MLAs, falling short by two members.
Sources said Vijay failed to submit letters of support from the VCK and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).
Later, the IUML issued a statement clarifying that it was not part of the TVK-led alliance.
Meanwhile, AMMK leader T.T.V. Dhinakaran is also said to have informed the Governor that his party would support the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) instead.
Earlier in the evening, Vijay had met Governor Arlekar and staked claim to form the government, stating that he enjoyed the support of 118 MLAs.
