<p class="title">The Congress on Tuesday expelled the 14 rebel MLAs from Karnataka who were responsible for bringing down the party's coalition government in the state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">All the MLAs, who resigned from the state legislature, had abstained from voting that led to the defeat of the Congress-JD(S) government in the trust vote.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The action by the party comes days after these MLAs were disqualified from the state legislature.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The then Karnataka Assembly Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar disqualified 11 Congress legislators Pratap Gowda Patil, B C Patil, Shivram Hebbar, S T Somashekar, Byrati Basavaraj, Anand Singh, Roshan Baig, Munirathna, K Sudhakar and MTB Nagaraj and Shrimant Patil on Sunday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Three other rebel MLAs Ramesh Jarkiholi, Mahesh Kumatalli and Shankar were disqualified on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Congress-JDS coalition government headed by H D Kumaraswamy crumbled under the weight of a rebellion by a big chunk of its lawmakers, 20 of whom were absent for the voting that led to the defeat of its trust vote.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The AICC has approved the proposal received from PCC President, Karnataka regarding the expulsion of the MLAs, a party statement said, giving the names of all the 14 MLAs. </p>
<p class="title">The Congress on Tuesday expelled the 14 rebel MLAs from Karnataka who were responsible for bringing down the party's coalition government in the state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">All the MLAs, who resigned from the state legislature, had abstained from voting that led to the defeat of the Congress-JD(S) government in the trust vote.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The action by the party comes days after these MLAs were disqualified from the state legislature.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The then Karnataka Assembly Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar disqualified 11 Congress legislators Pratap Gowda Patil, B C Patil, Shivram Hebbar, S T Somashekar, Byrati Basavaraj, Anand Singh, Roshan Baig, Munirathna, K Sudhakar and MTB Nagaraj and Shrimant Patil on Sunday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Three other rebel MLAs Ramesh Jarkiholi, Mahesh Kumatalli and Shankar were disqualified on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Congress-JDS coalition government headed by H D Kumaraswamy crumbled under the weight of a rebellion by a big chunk of its lawmakers, 20 of whom were absent for the voting that led to the defeat of its trust vote.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The AICC has approved the proposal received from PCC President, Karnataka regarding the expulsion of the MLAs, a party statement said, giving the names of all the 14 MLAs. </p>