Is Mysore-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha entering the State politics, after a 10-year stint as the Member of Parliament?
Such a hint came from none other than the State BJP president B.Y. Vijayendra, who was in Mysuru on Wednesday.
While addressing the party workers given the Lok Sabha elections, Mr. Vijayendra, while commenting on the MP who did not get the party ticket, said Mr. Simha may get bigger responsibilities in the State.
Referring to the denial of ticket to him, he said, “As the president of the State unit of BJP, I am telling today that Mr. Simha has a good future in the party. He can join the State politics. I have seen him working as the BJP Yuva Morcha president and also the development works in the constituency. I will vouch for his better future in the party.”
Mr. Simha was upset over not getting the ticket and his supporters had staged protests seeking his renomination.
Though Mr. Simha, a Vokkaliga, has reconciled and started campaigning for the party candidate Mr. Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, who is the scion of the erstwhile royal family in Mysuru, he keeps reiterating the work he did as an MP for ten years.
This is perhaps for the first time, after Mr. Simha missed the ticket, that such an assurance has come from the party leadership.
