BENGALURU: Greater than 15 distinguished leaders and former corporators from BJP and JD-S joined Karnataka’s ruling Congress n Bengaluru on Friday within the presence of Deputy Chief Minister D.Okay. Shivakumar. The operate was held on the Bharat Jodo Auditorium on the social gathering workplace right here.
Former Deputy Mayor L. Srinivas, Prasad Babu, and former taluk panchayat member Anjinappa have been among the many most important leaders. Shivakumar gave them Congress flags and welcomed them to the social gathering.
After pulling in BJP and JD-S leaders from Yeshwantpur and R R Nagar constituencies in Bengaluru, that is the third main operation carried out by the Congress.
Srinivas, after becoming a member of the Congress, mentioned that he labored for the BJP for 33 years.
“BJP and JD-S leaders from Padmanabhanagar constituency who labored as an enormous pressure behind capturing energy in Bengaluru metropolis company are actually with Congress. The BJP leaders haven’t handled them effectively and now they’re knocking our doorways,” Shivakumar mentioned.
He has overtly said that they’d take steps to strengthen the social gathering. He’s working in direction of attaining victory within the forthcoming Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) elections and Lok Sabha elections.
Sources state that Shivakumar had assured the excessive command of profitable greater than 20 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka. He’s speaking to greater than 20 MLAs from BJP and JD (S) and attempting to drag them into the Congress.
Defending the transfer, Shivakumar had questioned whether or not the BJP was proper in toppling elected governments in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, and Madhya Pradesh.
