Bengaluru, Jan 18: Two days after BJP’s ‘Operation Lotus’ withered, the Congress will demonstrate its strength at the legislature party meeting on Friday. As three Congress MLAs continue to remain elusive, much like the two independents, BJP hasn’t lost all hopes.
The CLP meeting, convened to put an end to ongoing talk of a few Congress MLAs joining hands with the BJP to topple the seven-month-old HD Kumaraswamy government, will be held at the Vidhana Soudha. If about 10 MLAs fail to turn up, it can be assumed that BJP’s operation is still on. Some BJP leaders are pinning their hopes on Congress MLAs Ramesh Jarakiholi, Mahesh Kumatalli and Umesh Jadhav, who are still holed up in a hotel in Mumbai.
On the other hand, two disgruntled Congress MLAs, Shivaram Hebbar and JN Ganesh, who were on ‘BJP’s list’, returned to Karnataka and declared their allegiance to the Congress.Hebbar, who met KPCC president Dinesh Gundurao on Thursday, said he had been to Andaman and Nicobar with his grandchildren. “It was a pre-planned trip and it was just a coincidence that I was away when the political drama was going on,” he said.
Hebbar admitted he is unhappy with Congress leaders, saying: “I am disappointed at not getting a cabinet berth, but I will fight for it by remaining in the party.” Ganesh, who resurfaced in Kampli, also reiterated that he will not join the BJP. “I had not gone to Mumbai or anywhere,” the first-time MLA said.
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