Mumbai: Over 11 rebel MLAs of Congress-Janata Dal (S) state coalition who have been residing in Hotel Sofitel, located at Bandra Kurla Complex, have asked for security and protection from Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy and ‘troubleshooter’ of coalition and State Water Resource Minister D K Shivakumar, on Tuesday, July 9, night.
They have written a letter to Mumbai Police Commissioner with regard to this as DKShi and few of coalition leaders are expected to meet them in the hotel today.
In the letter they have mentioned that they had received information of CM HDK and DKShi both may arrive at the hotel to meet them and because of this they were under fear.
“We do not want to meet them. Kindly help us in this matter and do not allow them to enter the premises of the hotel”, added the letter.
The letter has signatures of rebel coalition MLAs Pratap Gowda Patil, B C Patil, Bhairati Basavaraj, S T Somashekhar, A H Vishwanath, Ramesh Jarkiholi, Shivaram Hebbar, Mahesh Kumathalli and Narayan Gowda.
It can be recalled that, earlier over 13 MLAs had filed their mass resignations as a revolt against the Congress-JDS state coalition government and submitted to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Speaker Ramesh Kumar’s office and had flown to Mumbai in a special chartered flight.
