PTI | | Posted by Pathi Venkata Thadhagath
Former Congress chief S P Muddahanumegowda, actor-turned politician Shashi Kumar and retired IAS officer Anil Kumar B H on Thursday joined the ruling BJP in Karnataka the place elections are due in about 5 months. They have been admitted into the occasion at its state headquarters right here within the presence of Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, and state BJP President Nalin Kumar Kateel.. Muddahanumegowda, a senior chief and former Member of Parliament from Tumakuru, had introduced his determination to give up the Congress in September.
He was the one Congress’ sitting MP throughout 2019 Lok Sabha polls to be denied a ticket, because the occasion had ceded the Tumakuru seat to its then alliance associate within the state, the JD(S). JD(S) patriarch and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda was the joint nominee of Congress-JD(S) alliance from Tumakuru. Angered by this determination, Muddahanumegowda had filed his papers each as a celebration candidate and as an unbiased, however had lastly yielded to persuasion by the occasion management. Muddahanumegowda has already expressed his intention to contest the Meeting polls from Kunigal seat.
Shashi Kumar, a Kannada movie actor, had been related to each Congress and JD(S) prior to now. He was a member of the thirteenth Lok Sabha, successful from Chitradurga in 1999 on a Janata Dal (United) ticket, and had unsuccessfully contested 2018 Meeting polls from Hosadurga on a JD(S) ticket. Anil Kumar had held the place of further chief secretary on the time of his retirement in July. Based on sources, Kumar, who belongs to the SC ‘left’ group, is anticipating a ticket from the Koratagere Meeting constituency in Tumakuru district, presently represented by Congress veteran and former Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara, and has already held a number of rounds of conferences together with his supporters there.