Bengaluru: Karnataka’s political slug fest intensified on Wednesday with two more Karnataka Congress legislators, MTB Nagaraj and D Sudhakar, submitted their resignations, taking to 13 the number of party MLAs who have quit since July 1.

3-4 more party legislators are likely to resign before the 10-day monsoon session of the state legislature beginning Friday here

If the resignations are accepted, the party’s strength is the Assembly will reduce from 79 to 66, including the Speaker.

According to sources, 3-4 more party legislators are likely to resign before the 10-day monsoon session of the state legislature beginning Friday here.

The Congress, desperate to save its government in Karnataka, raised storm in Parliament and protested on the roads of Bengaluru, where senior party leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and KC Venugopal were detained along with several party workers while taking out a protest march.

High drama was also witnessed in Mumbai where some Congress leaders, including DK Shivakumar, were detained by police after they tried to enter a hotel to meet the rebel legislators, who hooted them away.

If all the resignations are accepted, the strength of the Assembly will go down to 209 and the new halfway mark will be 105.

A delegation of Karnataka’s BJP met the Governor and urged him to direct the Assembly Speaker to conduct floor test, saying the Congress-JD(S) coalition government has ‘lost’ majority.

“We have petitioned the Governor to direct the Speaker to hold a floor test in the Assembly on Friday when the monsoon session begins as the coalition government lost majority and its Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has no moral right to continue anymore,” BJP’s state leader BS Yeddurappa told reporters here.