Former Congress MP S P Muddahanumegowda, actor-turned-politician Shashikumar and retired IAS officer B H Anil Kumar Thursday joined the BJP in Karnataka.
The trio was inducted into the social gathering on the state BJP workplace within the presence of chief minister Basavaraj Bommai, state BJP president Nalin Kumar Kateel and different leaders of the state unit.
Bommai mentioned many leaders are eager to affix the BJP. “Polarisation means there are two poles (for individuals to establish themselves with). There aren’t two poles anymore; there’s solely BJP,” he mentioned.
Muddahanumegowda was elected MP from the Tumkur Lok Sabha constituency in 2014. Nonetheless, in 2019, Congress and JD(S) fielded former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda as a consensus candidate which upset Muddahanumegowda.
A two-time MLA, Muddahanumegowda is eyeing a ticket for the Kunigal Meeting seat within the upcoming state polls. He was an MLA within the section twice, which is presently represented by Dr Ranganath of the Congress, a relative of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president D Ok Shivakumar.
Muddahanumegowda had resigned from the Congress in September this 12 months after assembly Shivakumar and legislature social gathering chief Siddaramaiah, saying he was sad over the therapy meted to him by the social gathering in the previous couple of years.
After his resignation, he had introduced that he would contest the subsequent Meeting election within the state from the Kunigal constituency.
In the meantime, Shahshikumar, who was elected as an MP from the Chitradurga constituency in 2004, stop JD(U) and joined JD(S) earlier than transferring to Congress. In 2018 he contested from the Hosadurga Meeting section in Chitradurga district on a JD(S) ticket. He’s anticipated to contest from the identical constituency once more however this time on a BJP ticket.
In 2010, Shashikumar received embroiled in a faux caste certificates controversy with allegations that he had faked his scheduled tribe certificates to say that he hails from the Nayaka neighborhood. He denied the fees saying the allegation, made by the then BJP authorities, was politically motivated.
B H Anil Kumar, a 1987 batch IAS officer, retired from civil service as extra chief secretary to authorities just lately and was previously a BBMP commissioner. Even earlier than his service ended, there have been rumours that he would take the ballot plunge after retirement and would contest from the Koratagere constituency which is reserved for the scheduled caste neighborhood.