New Delhi: The floor test of the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition government in Karnataka will take place at 11 am on July 18, said Karnataka Congress Legislature Party leader Siddaramaiah on Monday. On July 12, chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy had asked for a trust vote for his government.The Bharatiya Janata Party had called for the trust motion to be moved on Monday (today) itself. Its MLAs had also arrived in full force, hoping for the same. However, Karnataka assembly speaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar said he could not take a decision on the matter as Supreme Court had asked him to maintain status quo until Tuesday.Bengaluru: BJP MLAs arrive at Vidhana Soudha. BJP has demanded CM HD Kumaraswamy to prove majority of Congress-JD(S) Government in the assembly today #Karnataka pic.twitter.com/sBool96g7B— ANI (@ANI) July 15, 2019Meanwhile, for the second time since they submitted the resignations that kicked off the sorry saga for the Karnataka coalition government, rebel MLAs of the Congress and JD(S), who are staying at a Mumbai hotel, have written to the city police chief, saying they do not want to meet Mallikarjun Kharge or any other Congress leader.On July 9, they had written a similar letter saying they do not want to meet Congress leader and Karnataka irrigation minister D.K. Shivakumar, who was consequently not let into the hotel on July 10.On Monday, there were speculations that Kharge, some other senior Congress leaders and Karnataka chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy himself may visit the Hotel Renaissance in Powai where the rebel legislators have been staying for the past week.In the letter to Mumbai police chief, the rebel MLAs said they have “absolutely no intention of meeting” the Congress brass.Mumbai: 14 rebel K’taka MLAs write to Sr Police Inspector, Powai Police Station. Write ‘…we’ve absolutely no intentions in meeting Mallikarjun Kharge, GN Azad or any Congress dignitaries from Maharashtra&K’taka or any political leader as we anticipate serious threat from them.’ pic.twitter.com/RfI2Jt6d6D— ANI (@ANI) July 14, 2019Like they had before Shivakumar had visited, the 15 MLAs who are staying at the hotel said they felt threatened by the imminent arrival of the Congress leaders.Leaders of the crisis-hit ruling coalition in Karnataka on Sunday held hectic parleys to discuss the future course of action to save the government.Congress legislative party leader Siddaramaiah, today, held a meeting with MLAs at Taj Vivanta in Bengaluru. #Karnataka pic.twitter.com/f0IHbGqedj— ANI (@ANI) July 14, 2019With Kumaraswamy’s trust vote on the calendar, Siddaramaiah who has already met rebel MLAs like Ramalinga Reddy, could be expected to hold more such meetings.Also read: Kumaraswamy Seeks Trust Vote; SC Directs Speaker to Maintain Status QuoFast emerging a key player for the Congress in this episode, Shivakumar had, on Sunday, expressed confidence that the Congress’s MLAs had been “giving signals that they would save the government”. He also said that he had full faith that they would vote for the same party from which they had been elected, when it came to the trust vote. “The law is very clear. If they vote against the confidence motion, they’ll lose their membership,” he said.On Saturday, he visited Hoskote MLA M.T.B. Nagaraj’s house. The last MLA to submit his resignation, Nagaraj has shown signs of considering its withdrawal.All the other rebel legislators, however, made it very clear on Sunday that they were firm on their resignations and have also held that they are not being pressured by the BJP. S.T. Somashekar said on Sunday that they will not take their resignations back at any cost. “K. Sudhakar is in Delhi. He also supports us and may join us here in Mumbai soon. BJP leader R. Ashok has nothing to do with us, we are unaware as to why he is here,” he said.K. Sudhakar is among the five MLAs, along with Anand Singh, M. Nagaraju, Munirathna and Roshan Baig, who approached the Supreme Court on Saturday, seeking impleadment in the case relating to their resignation from the House. Bar and Bench reported that the MLAs had held in their application that their resignations had been unlawfully left hanging by speaker Ramesh Kumar. The Supreme Court will hear their case on Tuesday.Also read: As Speaker Pleads Inability to Decide on Rebel MLAs’ Resignation, Uncertainty Greets SC OrderTen rebel MLAs had also moved the apex court earlier alleging that the speaker has been delaying the acceptance of their resignations. The case will be heard again on Tuesday.Meanwhile, allegations, affidavits and submissions have flown thick and fast in which both parties (the MLAs and the speaker) have alleged that they were the ones who were following the letter of the law. Indeed, what came first, the disqualification proceedings against the MLAs or the MLAs’ resignations is one of the burning issues that remain to be decided by the Supreme Court.Also read: Do Karnataka Rebel MLAs Have a Case to Press Their Resignation?The rebel MLAs are not the only ones who have been quarantined. Loyal coalition MLAs and BJP MLAs have both been put up in hotels in and around Bengaluru.#WATCH: BJP MLAs play cricket at the resort in Bengaluru where they are staying. #Karnataka. (13 July) pic.twitter.com/wiZlU0LXiw— ANI (@ANI) July 14, 2019