Bengaluru: Even as former Chief Minister Siddharamaiah is scheduled to fly to Europe in the first week of September for holidaying, speculations are rife in political circles that 17 Congress MLAs close to the ex-CM are ready to quit their seats and jump ship to the BJP, thus posing a serious threat to the JD(S)-Congress coalition Government headed by Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy.
Siddharamaiah’s gamble of going on an European jaunt even as the results of Urban Local Body (ULB) polls will be out in the first week of September, is said to have rattled Kumaraswamy, who had taken over as CM just three months ago.
