Nearly 13 days after they left home to huddle together at various resorts, Janata Dal (Secular) and Congress legislators are likely to disperse soon after voting in the confidence motion on Friday evening. Legislators — who were summoned by party leaders soon after the election results threw up a hung Assembly — have been together since May 13.
At first, they were put up in a star-category hotel in the central business district in Bengaluru and were moved to a resort on the outskirts of Hyderabad on May 17 night in a bus as former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa was given 15 days to prove his majority in the House. However, with the Supreme Court intervening in the process, the legislators were moved back to Bengaluru by bus on May 18 and reached Bengaluru the next day when they took oath. Since then, JD(S) MLAs have been housed together at a resort near Nandi Hills, while Congress MLAs have been in a luxury hotel in the city.
Party sources said they would be free to go home after participating in the confidence motion. “The only two times they were relatively free and outside the resort was on the day they took oath, and on Wednesday, when party State president H.D. Kumaraswamy took oath as the Chief Minister,” sources said.
The family members of several legislators began visiting the resort after May 19, when Mr. Yeddyurappa resigned, helping to reduce their anxiety and stress.
