Karnataka polls: Former deputy CM Laxman Savadi joins Congress

Dealing a major blow to the ruling BJP ahead of the May 10 Karnakata elections, former deputy CM Laxman Savadi has decided to join the Congress, informed the party’s state president DK Shivakumar on Friday.
Savadi met the Congress’s state president Shivakumar and the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Siddaramaiah at the latter’s residence in Bengaluru on Friday. Shivakumar said a press conference will be held later today where Savadi will make his political switch official.
Savadi, on April 12, resigned as a Legislative Council member and from the primary membership of the BJP after missing out on a ticket to seek a fresh mandate from his Assembly constituency, Athani.

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