Chikkaballapur independent MLA Sharath Bachegowda to join Congress
Bengaluru: Chikkaballapur Lok Sabha MP BN Bachegowda’s son Sharath Kumar Bachegowda, an independent MLA from Hoskote assembly constituency will join Congress party on February 22.
Bachegowda is expected to join the party in the presence of KPCC President DK Shivakumar and former CM Siddaramaiah.
Bachegowda has already held a round of talks with Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah on his decision to join the party. It is learned that the Congress High Command has already given green signal for his inclusion.
Bachegowda, fighting assembly elections as an independent candidate, had defeated BJP's MTB Nagaraj, who had fled Congress.
Bachegowda will join the national party Congress to fight his family's political rival MTB Nagaraj.
Bachegowda was a hopeful BJP candidate for the by-election, however, Chief Minister Yeddyurappa gave the ticket to MTB Nagaraj. Frustrated by this, Bachhegowda resigned from the BJP and campaigned as independent candidate and won.
Despite losing the by-election, MTB Nagaraj was elected as an MLC, and was given Cabinet berth by Yeddyurappa. Bachegowda has chosen Congress party to fight his rival MTB Nagaraj on political grounds.
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PM should tell his MPs to do better homework before raising issues in Parliament: Cong
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Monday asked Prime Mi nister Narendra Modi to tell his MPs to do better homework before raising issues in Parliament.
His reaction came after BJP MP K Laxman accused the Congress and other opposition parties of appeasement and doing votebank politics by giving OBC reservation to Muslims.
"Today in the Rajya Sabha, the Indian National Congress was accused of appeasement because of its stance on reservations for Muslims on the basis of backwardness," Ramesh said in a post on X.
"Here is what the Prime Minister had himself said on this subject on Feb 9, 2022. The PM should tell his MPs to do better homework," the Congress leader said, while sharing an undated video of the Prime Minister.
In the video, PM Modi is saying that in Gujarat too, there are 70 such castes in Muslim community which were OBC.
"In my Gujarat, when I was there, they received the benefits under OBC category, but I did not see that in the media," the prime minister said in the video.
