While Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy insists that Congress MLAs who the BJP has whisked off to Mumbai in a bid to topple his government were still in constant touch with him, BJP leaders in Maharashtra claim the Karnataka Janata Dal-Congress coalition government will fall in the next two-three days.

Claims and counter claims are being made by the BJP and the Congress, but no verified information was available about the confinement of the three Congress MLAs at a Powai hotel where leaders from both parties are said to have booked rooms. To make matters worse for Kumaraswamy on Tuesday, two MLAs from alliance partners (non-Congress) withdrew support to his government.