Six-time legislator Malikayya Guttedar, who joined Congress on Friday, was welcomed by the Congress leaders at the District Congress Office in Kalaburagi on Sunday.
“It was suffocating in the BJP so I quit the party,” Mr. Guttedar said and accused the saffron party of breeding polarisation within families and adopting divide and rule policy.
“I am happy that I have returned to my parent party and I have received a very warm welcome by Congress leaders,” Mr. Guttedar told a press conference after receiving a rousing welcome.