Bengaluru: Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator KP Nanjundi, who had resigned as a Member of the Karnataka Legislative Council (MLC) and also as a primary member of the BJP on Tuesday, joined the Congress on Wednesday.

The former MLC was welcomed into the party by DK Shivakumar, President of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), during a formal event organized at the Congress party office in the city.

Nanjundi had met and handed his resignation papers to Basavaraj Horatti, Chairperson of the Legislative Council, at Horatti's residence in Hubballi on Tuesday. He had also expressed his dissatisfaction about the negligent attitude of the BJP leaders 'towards him as well as certain communities', while speaking to reporters later.

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Bengaluru: The Karnataka Government on Saturday announced that it has appointed 8 additional officers to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the alleged sex assault involving Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna.

The newly appointed officers are SP C.A. Simon, PI Ravganesh Jarnadhan, CPI Sridhar B.S, ASI Allabaksha, Head Constable Saraswati, and Constables S.N. Mamata, Jafar Sadik, and Harish Babu. This decision follows the appointment of 18 personnel to the team last week, with ADGP BK Singh leading the investigation.