Bengaluru: Digivijaya Singh stopped from meeting party MLAs, taken to preventive custody 

The police allegedly stopped the Congress leader from entering the hotel. He later sat on a dharna infront of the hotel.

Reacting to the incident, Singh tweeted: "I am in Bengaluru to meet our MLAs. I am not allowed to meet them by Karnataka Police. I am not armed. I am not a threat to them. I am here to meet them in full public view, not secretly. But BJP wants to keep them under lock and key. They have abducted democracy."

The MP CM Kamal Nath-led government fell into crisis a week ago after 22 Congress MLAs resigned.

All the MLAs were the loyalists of BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia who resigned as the Congress member only last week.

If the resignations of the MLAs are accepted, the Congress government will certainly be "minority" paving the path for the BJP to assume power 15 months after getting defeated in the state elections.

 If the resignations are accepted, the majority of the 230-member assembly will fall to 104 as two seats are presently vacant.

Even with the support of its allies Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP) and four Independents, the Congress' tally will reach only 99 while the BJP will sail through with its own 107 MLAs.