Three of the 17 lawmakers responsible for bringing down the coalition government of the Congress and HD Kumaraswamy's Janata Dal Secular have been disqualified by Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar. Two of them -- Ramesh Jarkiholi and Mahesh Kumathahalli -- belonged to the Congress and had resigned earlier this month. The other, R Shankar, the legislator from Ranebennur, is one of the two Independents who supported the government but switched sides.
