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Ex-Karnataka CM Bangarappa joins BJP New Delhi, March 4 Mr Bangarappa, who met Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
and party President M.Venkaiah Naidu, formally joined the BJP in the presence of
party general-secretary Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Karnataka state unit president
Ananth Kumar, BJP poll campaign committee chairperson B. B. S. Yidurappa and
senior state BJP leader D. H. Shankarmurthy. Welcoming Mr Bangarappa, who was
expelled along with his son Kumar Bangarappa by the Congress yesterday, Mr Naidu
said former ministers and MLAs were joining the BJP in a big way and this would
enable the party to increase its tally in the state in the Lok Sabha
elections. Mr Naidu said many more Karnataka legislators and leaders from other
parties were likely to join the BJP. “We are confident that the BJP’s vision of
having the first BJP government in a South Indian state will be realised in the
coming elections,” Mr Naidu said, adding that the party would not project any
particular leader as the chief ministerial candidate in Karnataka. Meanwhile,
according to party sources, Mr Bangarappa is likely to contest the Lok Sabha
elections from the Shimoga constituency, represented by him in the 11th and 13th
Lok Sabha. Mr Naidu also made an attack on the Congress and other opposition
parties for their opposition to Deputy Prime Minister L. K. Advani’s “Bharat
uday yatra”, saying, “it is the Constitutional right of any party to conduct
yatras and rallies.” |
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