Bengaluru: Several Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal Secular JD(S) leaders becoming a member of the Congress forward of the May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka is an proof to show that public sentiment is in favour of the celebration and it’ll come to energy, its state unit President D Okay Shivakumar mentioned on Monday. He was talking after inducting Kudligi BJP MLA N Y Gopalakrishna, who had resigned as a legislator on Friday, into the celebration.
“Several BJP and JD(S) leaders are knocking our door, this is evidence to show that the voice of the people of the state is in favour of the Congress and that our march is on a right track, towards power,” Shivakumar mentioned. Speaking to reporters right here, he famous Gopalakrishna resigned as BJP MLA and joined the Congress; equally JD(S) MLA Okay M Shivalinge Gowda too has resigned and might be becoming a member of the celebration quickly.
BJP and JD(S) legislators becoming a member of the Congress voluntarily is a “big evidence” that folks have determined for a change, after the “failure of the double engine government”, the KPCC chief additional mentioned.
“There is a big list of people wanting to join the Congress…The party has not assured tickets to anyone. We will screen every name, only if we are able to accommodate them we will consider,” he mentioned, including that there are additionally some who’re keen to hitch the celebration unconditionally to work for it.
Gopalakrishna, a six-time MLA, was earlier with the Congress and had obtained elected from the Molakalmuru Assembly phase in Chitradurga district 4 instances, and as soon as from Ballari, earlier than becoming a member of the BJP and successful from Kudligi. Over denial of Congress ticket in 2018, he had joined the BJP forward of the elections. The saffron celebration gave him a ticket from Kudligi in Vijayanagara district as a substitute of Molakalmuru, as senior chief Sriramulu was fielded from there. He had received from there.
Recalling his and his household’s lengthy affiliation with the Congress, Gopalakrishna after becoming a member of mentioned he’ll work for the celebration’s victory in Ballari, Chitradurga and Vijayanagara districts.
He mentioned he’ll work in the direction of putting in a Congress authorities as soon as once more within the state, and it’s left for the celebration management to subject him from the Molakalmuru Assembly phase. Recently, two MLCs from BJP — Puttanna and Baburao Chinchansur — had stop from their Legislative Council membership to hitch the Congress. JD(S) MLA S R Srinivas (Gubbi Srinivas alias Vasu) too joined the Congress, after resigning as MLA on March 27.
