Former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, who had joined the Congress final 12 months, returned to the Bharatiya Janata Occasion 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 occasion headquarters in Delhi within the presence of former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, state occasion chief BY Vijayendra and Union ministers Bhupender Yadav and Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
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“The occasion gave me loads of tasks prior to now,” he was quoted as saying by ANI. “Resulting from some points, I went to the Congress occasion. Within the final eight to 9 months, there have been loads of discussions. BJP employees 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 occasion with the assumption that Narendra Modi ji has to develop into the prime minister as soon as once more,”
Shettar had met Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah days earlier than his formal re-entry into the occasion.
After leaving the BJP final 12 months, 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.
