Karnataka polls: Former Deputy CM Laxman Savadi to join Congress two days after quitting BJP

Former Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi announced that he will join the Congress on Friday, two days after he quit the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Savadi had left the BJP on Wednesday after he wasdenied ticket in the first list of candidates announced for the Assembly elections to be held next month.

On Friday, he decided to join the Congress after a meeting with Congress’ Karnataka unit chief DK Shivakumar, Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Siddaramaiah and Randeep Singh Surjewala, who is in charge of the party in the state.

#WATCH | Former Karnataka Deputy CM Laxman Savadi meets State Congress president DK Shivakumar & State LoP Siddaramaiah at the latter's residence in Bengaluru

Laxman Savadi on April 12 resigned as Legislative Council member & from the primary membership of the BJP after losing… pic.twitter.com/fvaEm75IKm— ANI (@ANI) April 14, 2023

Savadi, who is a sitting member of the Karnataka Legislative Council, will resign from the Upper House on Friday after which he will be formally inducted into the Congress, Shivakumar told reporters after the meeting, PTI reported.

“Around nine or ten sitting legislators want to join us [Congress] but we don’t have space to accommodate them,” Shivakumar said.

Meanwhile, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said he was saddened by Savadi’s decision. “Sometimes such political...

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