Former Karnataka Minister and Congress leader A Manju likely to join BJP
Bengaluru, Mar 12(UNI) Former Karnataka Minister and senior Congress leader A Manju, who is upset with the JD(S)-Congress pre-poll alliance for the coming Lok Sabha elections, is likely to join the Bharatiya Janata Party and take on JD(S) candidate Prajval Revanna, son of Minister H D Revanna, in the Mandya Lok Sabha seat.
According to State BJP sources, the Congress leader, who is nursing his ambition to fight the coming Lok Sabha elections, had already held two rounds of meeting with the State BJP leaders to join the Saffron Party.
Manju, a strong votary against the Congress party to concede the Mandya Lok Sabha seat to JD(S) had openly rebelled against the state Congress leaders on the issue.
The BJP sources said that the Congress leader had put a condition to the BJP to give him the party ticket to contest the election, which he had lost to former Prime minister H D Deve Gowda in the 2014 general elections from Mandya.
However the district BJP leaders are not enthusiastic on admitting Manju into the BJP fold and field him as the candidate for the Mandya seat.
The District BJP President Yoga Ramesh, in a press conference protested against the party leaders for inviting the Congress leader for the party fold and also dole out the party ticket. "Manju who has no any following in the Congress party, and now rendered himself as a spent-force, now looking towards the BJP and he should not be given party ticket".
State BJP President B S Yeddyurappa held a meeting with the district BJP leaders on Tuesday and discussed about admitting Manju and field him as the BJP candidate in Mandya.
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