Bengaluru: Former Karnataka Minister Pramod Madhwaraj joined the BJP on Saturday in the presence of Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, just hours after quitting from the Congress.
Mr Madhwaraj, a former MLA and state minister, had resigned from the Congress party’s primary membership earlier in the day.
Mr Madhwaraj addressed his resignation letter to KPCC president DK Shivakumar stating, “I have decided not to accept the post of vice-presidentship of KPCC and also to tender my resignation from the primary membership of the Congress party.”
The former Minster mentioned in the letter “for the last three years the situation in the Udupi district Congress party has been a bad experience for me thus leading to political suffocation and the facts of which have been brought to your kind notice and informed to other party leaders by me.”
“I have observed that no worthwhile steps have been taken by the party to redress my grievances regarding the prevailing situation in the Udupi district Congress party,” Mr Madhwaraj wrote.
Mr Madhwaraj had stated that the ‘pattern’ in determining Padma awards had altered after the BJP administration took control at the Centre.
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