Hardeep Dang was one of the 10 MLAs who were allegedly spirited away by the BJP in an effort to bring down the government on Tuesday. The Congress said it managed to recover six of the MLAs from a hotel in Gurgaon, near Delhi, after a late-night rescue operation on Tuesday.

Hardeep Dang, Raghuraj Kansana, Bisahulal Singh and Independent member Shera Bhaiya remained missing. There were rumours that they were ensconced at a five-star hotel in BJP-ruled Karnataka, which, last year, saw the Janata Dal Secular-Congress government crashing after 15 rebels crossed over to the BJP.
“I have received information about Hardeep Singh Dang’s resignation. I have not yet received any letter from him or discussed the matter in person. Until I meet him personally, making comments over it will not be appropriate,” Chief Minister Kamal Nath said.

The Kamal Nath government has 120 MLAs — four over the majority mark of 116 in the 230-member assembly. Of them, 114 are from the Congress, two from the BSP, one from the Samajwadi Party and four independents. The BJP has 107 MLAs and two seats are currently vacant. If the three other missing MLAs resign, it would bring down the number in the assembly to 224 and the majority mark to 113. Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh — who hinted at such a possibility earlier this week — said the BJP was “offering Rs 25-35 crore” to the MLAs.

Insisting that the government was safe, the party alleged that it was part of the BJP’s annual effort to increase the numbers in Rajya Sabha, where they are in minority.

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In a letter reportedly written by Siddhartha to the board of directors and his CCD family before he went missing.

he said he had “failed to create the right profitable business model despite my best efforts”.

He added, “I would like to say I gave it my all. I am very sorry to let down all the people that put their trust in me. I fought for a long time but today I gave up as I could not take any more pressure from one of the private equity partners forcing me to buy back shares….”

According to reports, Siddhartha got off from his car near a bridge across the Nethravathi River near Mangalore, about 375km from Bengaluru, but did not return even after an hour. A panicked driver went down looking for him, but could not find him anywhere. He then alerted the family members who in turn informed the police.

Rescue teams and sniffer dogs are scanning the bridge over the Netravati river. The Coast Guard and the National Disaster Response Force have joined the search.

meanwhile Congress leader DK Shivakumar said he got a call  from missing Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha on July 28. Siddhartha asked if they could meet, Shivakumar said in a tweet.

He also called the letter written by Siddhartha to the board and employees “utterly fishy”. Shivakumar said, “However, I find this utterly fishy and urge that a thorough Investigation be conducted into this matter. Shri Siddhartha and his family were closely known to me for decades now.”

The Karnataka government has already started search operations in the Netravathi bridge area. Since it is raining in the coastal Karnataka, the water level in the river has gone up to a serious level.

Shares of Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd plunged 20% on Tuesday after the company’s founder VG Siddhartha went missing . Coffee Day Enterprises shares were locked in a 20% lower circuit at Rs 153.40. The stock, as of its Monday’s closing price, has corrected nearly 27% in the last one year.

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