After three months of the Congress party’s spectacular victory in Legislative Assembly elections, there are now strong political indications that a few “dissenting” opposition BJP MLAs who had earlier defected from the Congress to the BJP, are possibly exploring returning to the ruling party in Karnataka.
Terming the move as a ‘ghar wapsi’ (homecoming), some Congress leaders believe that four to five BJP MLAs are likely to shift to the Congress to boost the party’s prospects in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. These MLAs have played a vital role in the collapse of H.D. Kumaraswamy-led coalition government in 2019 and installation of the BJP government.
Fourteen Congress MLAs and three JD(S) MLAs quit the two parties in 2019 which led to the collapse of the JD(S)-Congress government in that year.
