MLC and former Minister A.H. Vishwanath did not rule himself out of the race for the Lok Sabha elections and said that there was nothing wrong if he aspires for ticket to contest the polls.
‘’Why not,’’ he said in reply to a question at a press meet here on Friday when asked whether he harboured ambition to contest the elections.
‘’I have been a former MP and worked for the development of the constituency. Earlier, I was a Minister in the State government headed by Congress and shored up infrastructure of schools during my stint,” said Mr. Vishwanath recalling his days in the Congress which he quit, to join the JD(S) only to rebel against the leadership and join the BJP from which he is now estranged.
When pointed out that the moot question about his candidature was the party which he would represent given his antecedents of party hopping, Mr. Vishwanath, who was a member of the Congress for greater part of his political life, said that he would have to bank on ‘’his old party’’ the Congress.
