Pune: The Congress-Janata Dal (S) state coalition MLAs who had flown to Mumbai and later shifted to Pune during the time of the coalition floor test in the Karnataka State Assembly, have now decided to return to Bengaluru, on Tuesday, July 30.

As the Congress-JDS coalition will be imposing whip on their rebel MLAs once the Bharatiya Janata Party, under the leadership of Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa proves its majority on the floor of the House, they have refrained from coming on Monday, July 29 and reach Bengaluru on Tuesday, July 30.

All the 15 rebel MLAs are said to hold a press conference on Wednesday, July 31 and would be clarifying the basis for tendering their resignations.

Earlier, one of the rebel MLA Shivaram Hebbar had returned to his hometown, Yellapur from Pune and had held a press meet and said that they were not ‘rebels’ but ‘helpless.’

It can be recalled that around 13 rebel coalition MLAs had tendered their resignation to Assembly Speaker Ramesh Kumar on July 6, and immediately flown to Mumbai in a special charter flight, which the Congress-JDS coalition leaders alleged to be unethical and unconstitutional.