Amid talks of ex-minister Ramesh Jarkiholi’s disenchantment with the state BJP and speculations that he might depart the get together, BJP basic secretary in-charge of Karnataka Arun Singh held a closed-door assembly with the sugar baron at Belagavi on Sunday. The assembly is being seen as an try and assuage the latter, a cash bag representing the Valmiki neighborhood. “He’ll play an essential function in combating elections (subsequent 12 months),” Singh had instructed reporters after the assembly.
Jarkiholi was among the many first to desert the Congress-JD(S) coalition authorities again in 2019, and had reluctantly stepped down because the Water Assets minister in March final 12 months after a sleaze video surfaced. The lady within the video additionally filed a case of sexual assault in opposition to him.
Sources mentioned the Gokak legislator was in contact with JD(S) management. The BJP is cautious that he can take Athani MLA Mahesh Kumtahalli alongside if he jumped the ship because the latter had joined the BJP with him after severing ties with the Congress three years in the past.
Jarkiholi’s alleged function within the victory of his brother Lakhan Jarkiholi as an unbiased MLC from Belagavi native physique constituency.