Bengaluru, May 19: The Supreme Court on Saturday ordered live streaming of the most-awaited floor test in Karnataka Assembly in order to maintain transparency in the system. In the trust vote, the newly sworn-in Chief Minister of Karnataka, B S Yeddyurappa will have to prove his majority in the state Assembly at 4 PM on Saturday.

The apex court in its directive said, “live telecast would be the best possible way to ensure transparency in the proceedings”, also made it clear that “there shall be no other item in the agenda that shall be taken up during the trust vote today”.

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The order for holding the live telecast was delivered after the Congress-JD (S) combine expressed no objection to the suggestions made by the Karnataka government and Governor Vajubhai Vala in this regard.

The BJP has emerged as the single largest party with 104 seats, followed by the Congress with 78, JD(S) with 37 and three seats have gone to others in the 224-member Assembly where elections were held for 222 seats.

The majority mark was 112 seats and the post-poll alliance strength of the Congress-JD(S) combine, which claims to have 117 MLAs and has alleged foul play in the Governor inviting BJP to form the government.

Now the majority mark has gone down by one to 111 as JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy has won from two assembly constituencies of Ramanagaram and Channapatna. However, he will be eligible to cast only one vote during the floor test.

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