NB Explains | Who is CM Laxman Savadi, who quits BJP after being denied ticket & joins Congress

He will now contest for Congress, confirms KPCC president DK Shivakumar. Southern state Karnataka will go voting on May 10 and counting will take place on May 13.

NewsBharati    14-Apr-2023 15:53:58 PM
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Bengaluru, April 14 :Former Karnataka deputy chief Minister Laxman Savadi, who quit BJP after being denied ticket to contest in the upcoming state Assembly elections, on Friday joined the Congress.

Savadi’s decision came after a meeting with Karnataka Congress chief D K Shivakumar, Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Siddaramaiah and Congress general secretary and party in-charge of Karnataka.

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He will now contest for Congress, confirms KPCC president DK Shivakumar. Southern state Karnataka will go voting on May 10 and counting will take place on May 13.

KPCC chief D K Shivakumar addressed the media on Friday and confirmed that Savadi has joined the grand old party. The former BJP leader was eyeing the Athani assembly constituency seat, but was passed over for sitting MLA Mahesh Kumathalli.
 
 
 
“There is no condition. He feels that he has been humiliated. It is our duty to take such great leaders into the Congress Party. There are more than 9-10 sitting MLAs who want to join us but we don't have space to accommodate them,” D K Shivakumar said upon the former BJP leader's entry in to the Congress.

Who is Laxman Savadi

  1. Mr Savadi has been elected to the Assembly thrice from Athani. He lost the election in 2018 to Mahesh Kumthalli of the Congress.
    The BJP high command has given the ticket to Mahesh Kumthalli, who defected to the BJP along with Ramesh Jarkiholi in 2019. Mahesh Kumthalli was re-elected to the Assembly in a by-election in 2019. Kumathalli was among the group of defectors who helped the BJP to bring down the Congress-JD(S) coalition and form its government under the leadership of B S Yediyurappa in 2019
    Later, Savadi was nominated to the Legislative Council.

  2.  Savadi served as the eighth deputy chief minister of the state and Minister of Transport of Karnataka from 2019 to 2021 in the Fourth BS Yediyurappa ministry.

  3.  He was Deputy Leader of the House in Karnataka Legislative Council

  4. . In 2012, Savadi got caught in the middle of a controversy after a video emerged showing him and his then colleague C C Patil allegedly watching pornographic clips on a mobile phone in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. Savadi resigned as a minister soon after the incident snowballed into a major political controversy.

 

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