The Hindu : Decision on joining BJP put off

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Wednesday, Mar 03, 2004

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Decision on joining BJP put off

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, MARCH 2. The former Karnataka Chief Minister, S. Bangarappa, said here this evening that he would take a decision on joining the BJP in the next two or three days. He told newspersons on reaching here that the meeting of his supporters held in Shimoga earlier in the day had favoured his joining the BJP. However, it had left the decision to him. The meeting had decided that he should quit the Congress but not form any other party.

Mr. Bangarappa declined to react to comments made on his decision by the Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, and the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president, B. Janardhan Poojary.

Earlier, Mr. Poojary had told a meeting of Congress workers that the State BJP leaders, H.N. Ananth Kumar, B.S. Yediyurappa, Jagadish Shettar, and K.S. Eshwarappa, were opposed to the admission of Mr. Bangarappa into their party. They had their own future in politics to safeguard. They would try their best to ruin his political career and Mr. Bangarappa would rue his decision to join the BJP. Mr. Bangarappa told presspersons that he felt suffocated in the Congress and he had been ignored and denied importance. On the other hand, he had found the BJP to be a changed political party.

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