Congress MLA Yashavantarayagouda Patil resigns as Karnataka legislator over Cabinet exclusionCongress MLA Yashavantarayagouda V Patil resigned from the Karnataka Legislative Assembly after being left out of the state Cabinet expansion. Patil submitted his resignation letter to Rudrappa Lamani, Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, at the Vidhana Soudha here. Two months after assuming charge as the Chief Minister, Shivakumar will expand his Cabinet on Monday by appointing 20 ministers. Clarifying that he was not quitting for the sake of position, Patil said, “It is not acceptable to my conscience. The situation in Vijayapura district is that loyalty and honesty are not valued in the Congress party.