Sources from bengaluru stated that While KPCC President Dinesh Gundu Rao asked the bjp not to give tickets to the disqualified legislators to contest polls if it has "any morality left," CLP leader Siddaramaiah said the verdict was a lesson to defectors to whom people would teach a lesson in the 5 december by-polls. Siddaramaiah said "Supreme court has partially upheld the then Speaker Ramesh Kumar's decision. I welcome the verdict".
He added "The judgment is a lesson to MLAs, who wanted to resign and join other party according to human fancy or by the influence of other parties it is not correct is what court has said”. When observing that he welcomes the court judgment in its entirety that includes allowing disqualified to contest polls, Siddaramaiah said people would have to understand that they have been disqualified as they indulged in defection, and the court has not accepted it.
When responding to a query on filing an appeal against the verdict, Siddaramaiah said, the party would decide on the appeal, but "according to my opinion there was no need for it". Perhaps the court struck down the portion of the order of then Speaker by which the legislators were disqualified till the end of the 15th karnataka assembly in 2023. KPCC President Rao said, the court decision proves that the bjp government in the state was "illegal".
