T V Mohandas Pai, Infosys board member, said: “The crisis will definitely impact government decision-making but projects like the elevated highway to the Electronic City, being a Central government project, will not be affected.” An official in the state infrastructure department that is overseeing the international airport project said “there is a certain level of continuity in major projects taken up a while ago due to the delegation of power in the government”.

The infrastructure department authorities held their scheduled monthly meeting with the Chief Secretary yesterday on improvement of roads in Bangalore.

“It is only the new projects that could be affected. The government has pushed ahead key new projects, knowing the crisis ahead,” the official said.

In what was possibly the last cabinet meeting of the JD(S)-BJP coalition on October 5, decisions were taken by JDS ministers — in the absence of BJP ministers, to authorise government officers to come up with a MoU with the SKIL Infrastructure Company to create an SEZ in the Nandagudi area outside Bangalore. The meeting also cleared acquisition of government land for an SEZ project in Mangalore and authorised a private company for preparation of a detailed project report for a monorail project in Bangalore.

On October 1, the cabinet had cleared the allocation of a township project to DLF in the Bidadi area in Chief Minister Kumaraswamy’s constituency.

BJP pulls the plug, Cong’s Moily meets Governor

BANGALORE: The 20-month-old JD(S)-BJP coalition government in Karnataka, headed by Chief Minister H DKumaraswamy, was reduced to a minority on Sunday after the BJP withdrew support over the JD(S) refusal to transfer power. The BJP met Governor Rameshwar Thakur and handed over the letter withdrawing support to the government. Meanwhile, former Chief Minister and Congress leader M Veerappa Moily also met the Governor. He later told reporters that Congress was ready to face elections “anytime”.