The Supreme Court has also ruled that the rebel MLAs can themselves take a call on whether they wished to attend the trust vote that it has been scheduled to take place on Thursday, July 18.
The Supreme Court had ordered the Speaker and the rebel MLAs on July 12 to maintain status quo regarding the resignations and disqualification of the MLAs till July 16.
In a relief to the rebel Congress-JDS MLAs, the Supreme Court said speaker should not decide on disqualification or resignation of MLAs till that date as constitutional issues needed to be addressed first.
The 15 rebel MLAs of the Congress-JD(S) coalition in Karnataka have been told by the Supreme Court today to meet the Assembly Speaker and submit their resignations.
The rebel Congress MLAs have approached the Mumbai Police saying they are feeling 'threatened' by their party leaders and that they do not wish to meet them.
Senior Congress leader and deputy CM G Parameswara had alleged that BJP is trying to destabilise the government after media reports stated that the chartered plane that flew the rebel MLAs to Mumbai belonged to Jupiter Capital, a firm founded by BJP MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar.