Hours after the Karnataka Governor invited the BJP’s B S Yeddyurappa to form the government, the Congress legal team in Delhi began laying the groundwork for battle. Around midnight, advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi and his team stationed themselves near the heavily barricaded 5 Krishna Menon Marg, residence of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra. An hour before that, Singhvi had rushed to the SC Registrar’s residence to place two petitions seeking an urgent intervention from the CJI to restrain the swearing-in. Read More