Hyderabad, March 4 -- The BJP Government in Karnataka suffered a severe blow with the resignation of Ramesh Jarkiholi, Minister for Water Resources in a day of fast-paced developments following the telecast of a widely viral video purportedly showing him getting intimate with an unidentified woman. The Minister was forced to resign from his post on Wednesday (March 3) regardless of his protestation of innocence. Ramesh, one among three brothers, all MLAs, was the one who played the key role in the defection of a bunch of Congress MLAs in August 2019 (leading to the fall of Congress-JDS coalition) belongs to a family of sugar barons from theBelgavi district. He represents the Gokak constituency. His brother Balachander Jarkiholi is also a ...