BJP rebel leader K.S. Eshwarappa says his decision to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Shivamogga against the party’s official candidate B.Y. Raghavendra, son of veteran leader B.S. Yediyurappa, is for ideological reasons.
The 75-year-old, now expelled from the BJP, has a nearly five-decade association with the party. He says only a “disciplined soldier” of the party like him can take such a decision “to protect the party and ensure that it is in sync with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ideology.”
In an interview with The Hindu, the leader claims he is getting the support of workers of all the three major political parties BJP, Congress and JD(S). He says he would rejoin the party to support Mr. Modi “soon after winning” the polls.
