1. Important BJP leaders will join Congress: Former Deputy CM Laxman Savadi
Several important leaders and legislators from the BJP will join the Congress, Laxman Savadi, former Deputy CM and Athani MLA, said in Bagalkot on November 19. Clarifying that this is not an operation by the ruling party in the State, he said the leaders were joining the Congress as they are tired of the internal politics of the BJP. “Wait till January 26 and see (what happens),” he said.
Mr. Savadi said that not choosing a leader from north Karnataka as president of the State unit would prove costly for the BJP. Though the party claims to have the support of Lingayats from across Karnataka and people from the community are concentrated in northern Karnataka, they have not been given representation in the BJP, he said.
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