Former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, who had joined the Congress final yr, returned to the Bharatiya Janata Celebration on Thursday in Delhi.
Shettar, 67, had left the BJP in April after he was denied a ticket for the Meeting elections.
He rejoined the BJP on the social gathering headquarters in Delhi within the presence of former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, state social gathering chief BY Vijayendra and Union ministers Bhupender Yadav and Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
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“The social gathering gave me a whole lot of duties up to now,” he was quoted as saying by ANI. “As a result of some points, I went to the Congress social gathering. Within the final eight to 9 months, there have been a whole lot of discussions. BJP staff requested me to come back again to the BJP.”
He added: “Even Yediyurappa ji and Vijayendra ji wished me to come back again to the BJP. I’m rejoining the social gathering with the assumption that Narendra Modi ji has to change into the prime minister as soon as once more,”
Shettar had met Union Residence Minister Amit Shah days earlier than his formal re-entry into the social gathering.
After leaving the BJP final yr, the Congress gave the chief from the Lingayat group a ticket to the Hubli-Dharwad Central Meeting constituency, however he misplaced to BJP’s Mahesh Tenginakai by greater than 34,000 votes.