PTI | | Posted by Yamini C S
Veteran parliamentarian Basavaraj Horatti was on Wednesday elected unopposed as Chairman of Karnataka Legislative Council. The 76-year-old eight time MLC had ended his lengthy affiliation with Janata Parivar and resigned from the Janata Dal (Secular) in addition to the Member of Legislative Council in Could this yr, two months earlier than his tenure was to come back to an finish.
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He later joined the BJP. With the BJP having fun with majority within the 75-member Home, the Congress and JDS had opted out of the race.
In absence of an elected Chairman, Raghunath Rao Malkapure was serving as pro-term Chairman.
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Horatti’s members of the family had been current within the guests’ gallery on the ‘Suvarna Vidhana Soudha’ right here, the place the legislature session is being held, when he assumed cost.
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and Ministers within the Karnataka authorities had been amongst those that greeted him on the event.